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Tehran Checking Nasrallah’s Status After Massive Israeli Strike Targeting Hezbollah HQ Update(1420): The last hour has seen a flurry of contradictory reports concerning who may have been killed in the largescale Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut Friday evening. Some Israeli reports are claiming Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed or at least injured.…

Big-Tech & Beijing’s Bazooka Spark Surge In Stocks, Gold, & Crypto Ahead Of PCE The risk-on sentiment prevailing today can likely be chalked up to three developments: guidance raise by MU, deepening of the monetary easing cycle round the globe, and supportive data on the domestic front. MU. In a surprise move, MU raised top…

Newsom Signs Bills Restricting California Oil, Gas Operations Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 25 signed a series of bills into law that limit oil and gas operations across the state, prompting criticism from a member of the fossil fuel industry who says the measures will lead…

VP Harris Will Visit Southern Border To Convince Voters She Can Fix Her Own Mess Axios reports that Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the US-Mexico border on Friday. President Biden-appointed “border czar” VP Harris appears to be pivoting from her open border support (globalist) to a border hawk after facilitating the greatest illegal alien invasion…

Is America’s Cultural Glue Weakening? Authored by David Rose via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), It’s hard to imagine a starker difference in political visions than between Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz. This could get ugly, so now is a good time to remind ourselves of what it is that holds us together as a…

Stocks, Bonds, Crypto, & Crude Plunge Ahead Of Powell/PCE Markets are reversing some of the positive momentum seen over the past few sessions. The Nasdaq outperformed on the day (thanks to NVDA & META) but only just managed to close green. The rest of the US majors were red with Small Caps the biggest loser……

Lucky Timing: Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Dumps $500k In Visa Stock Months Before Federal Antitrust Charges Today in ‘total coincidences’ news, the world’s most gifted stock-picking family, the Pelosis, appear to have done it again, selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Visa stock with what can only be described as timing that is beyond prescient.…

Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered Authored by Art Carden via The American Institute for Economic Research, Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early nineteenth-century Luddites wrecked textile machinery because it took their jobs. Our innate suspicion extends to trade, too, which is, after all, just another technology for turning one thing…

Netanyahu Vows Attacks On Lebanon Won’t Stop As Hezbollah Escalates With Deepest Strike Inside Israel Update(1500ET): Sky News and others are reporting that for the first time of the conflict, Hezbollah has launched a drone attack on a navy base which lies south of Haifa. The Atlit navy base which was targeted lies 80 kilometers from…

Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh’s Son Arrested On Child Pornography Charges The son of attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh has been arrested in North Carolina on child pornography charges.  Oran Routh, who was interviewed by mainstream news outlets just after his father’s attempt on Donald Trump’s life and stated he and his father both hated…

“What Could Go Wrong? Probably More Than You Might Imagine…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Wheezing Past The Graveyard “The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.” – Tom Luongo What could go wrong? Probably more than you might imagine. We have just turned the corner into autumn.…

Election Meddling? Zelensky Stumps For Harris On Taxpayer Dime Update(1619ET): During his first day in a busy week traveling in the US, Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Pennsylvania on Sunday. He was flown there on a US Air Force C-17. This unusual arrangement is of course courtesy of American taxpayers, and it looks like the Pentagon…

Markets Calm Ahead Of Macro Storm, But… After last week’s chaotic dumps and pumps across various asset classes amid Powell’s comments, a giant ‘quad witch’ OpEx, and mean-reverting FedSpeak, today saw markets take a pause (of sorts) with stocks, bonds, the dollar, gold, and crypto all relatively flat close-to-close… …with only crude oil showing any…

Hollywood Horror: Abandoned ‘Graffiti Mansion’ Becomes Squatters’ Paradise What was once a star-studded mansion in the Hollywood Hills has now become a nightmare for neighbors, as graffiti, garbage, and trespassers have taken over the 8,000-square-foot home that once housed celebrities like Mary J. Blige. Mary K. Blige has resided inside the mansion in years past,…

“The Biggest Wild Card In The Presidential Election”: Just Days Left Until A Crippling Port Strike Paralyzes The East Coast Late last week, the CEO of Flexport – one of largest US supply-chain logistics operators – warned that “the biggest wild card in the presidential election that nobody’s talking about? The looming port strike that…

Israeli Army Raids, Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s West Bank News Room Back in May, Israel’s Knesset voted unanimously to ban the Al Jazeera broadcast network. The Israeli order effectively shut down all Al Jazeera broadcasts in Israel. Authorities soon after raided its offices and confiscated equipment at the channel’s Jerusalem HQ inside the Ambassador Hotel. The Qatar-based news network…

FBI Agents Board Sister-Ship Of Dali Involved In Baltimore Bridge Disaster Early Saturday morning, Washington Post journalists observed FBI agents boarding the massive container ship Maersk Saltoro at a marine terminal in Baltimore City. The vessel is managed by the same parent company as the Dali, which toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year. The…

The Pittsburgh Paradox Could Hand PA To Trump Authored by Oliver Bateman via RealClearPolitics, Pittsburgh’s transformation from Rust Belt phoenix to progressive tech stronghold was supposed to be the Democrats’ long-term ace in the hole for Pennsylvania. Instead, hubris might just hand the Keystone State to the GOP in 2024. As Allegheny County limps toward…

“No Americans”: Insider Of Alleged Trafficking Network Reveals How Migrants Ended Up At Charleroi, PA Factory The story in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, should not be about goat sacrifices and migrants eating cats and dogs. It’s more sinister than that. It’s about a much darker reality of an alleged large-scale human trafficking and labor exploitation network operated by…

Georgia Election Board Approves Rule Requiring Hand Count Of Ballots Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Georgia Election Board has approved a new rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots in the November election and confirm that the numbers match machine counts before the vote can be certified. A…

Sugar Futures Erupt In Largest Weekly Gain In Years Amid “Unusual & Persistent Weather Events” In Brazil Brazil’s Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alerts has reported that drought conditions plague roughly 59% of the country, including vast areas of agricultural land. The severe drought has damaged several key commodity crops in the South American country, which…

The Kamala Harris Non-Sequitur On Energy Independence Authored by Michael O’Sullivan via RealClearEnergy, We don’t want to be dependent on foreign oil and we should invest in diverse forms of energy. That’s what we heard from sitting Vice President Kamala Harris in the most recent debate spectacle. Her exact words: “My position is that we…