“Cartel Connections”: 600 Pounds Of Cocaine Worth $10 Million Found In Queens Self-Storage Facility A routine-looking storage facility in Queens was allegedly holding something far more valuable than furniture and moving boxes, according to new reports from the New York Post and NBC New York. In fact, authorities say they uncovered nearly 600 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $10 million at a self-storage location in Long […]

Feedstock Is Not Fuel: Why Venezuelan Crude Is No Near-Term Fix Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson My friend, Karl Miller, is out with a great piece that exposes Trump’s claims about Venezuelan oil as a massive case of gaslighting. I am summarizing his piece, which is titled,“Venezuela Oil: The Physical Barrel and the Capital Bill,” because it is not publicly available via a link. On August 27 2026, President Trump […]

“Rich Dad Poor Dad” Author Robert Kiyosaki Claims He’s In $1.2 Billion In Debt Best-selling Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki said he owes a whopping $1.2 billion tied to his extensive real estate holdings, the New York Post reported. Kiyosaki made the admission during a wide-ranging interview on the “Get Rich Education” podcast. “So, I’m a billion two in debt,” he said. “But I studied it since 1974… If you’re going […]

Solar Overtakes Coal As China’s Largest Power Source Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Solar power has just become the single largest electricity capacity source in China, toppling coal in a landmark achievement of the Chinese renewable energy rollout. Solar power capacity in China stood at 1,286 gigawatts (GW) at the end of July, Chinese media cited the country’s National Energy Administration as saying on […]

California Let 400,000 Voters Register Without Providing Any ID On Monday, the Trump administration’s top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles revealed that California’s voter ID rules are so lax that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, with what he says is at least half a million voters on the rolls who never provided documentary proof of identification. The prosecutor, Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. […]

Hydrogen: Energy’s Version Of Waiting For Godot Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, Elon Musk may consider hydrogen “mind-bogglingly stupid” as a power source for cars, but the derision of the world’s most successful electric vehicle manufacturer has not stopped Washington from nursing dreams that hydrogen might become a big part of an envisioned clean new energy future. That dream came into focus three years […]

“Escalation Trap”: Robert Pape Blasts Bessent’s “Economic D-Day” Targeting Iran University of Chicago professor Robert Pape tore into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s so-called “Economic D-Day” campaign against Iran, branding it a dangerous “escalation trap” that history shows will not force Tehran to fold, and may instead drag the United States deeper into war. Appearing recently on the “Breaking Points” podcast, Pape, a […]

Chinese Student Charged With Lying To Border Agents Over Alleged Airport Photo Assignments From Beijing Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese national studying at a Canadian university has been charged with lying to American officials to conceal that he took photographs at a Chicago airport cargo facility at the direction of a suspected Chinese official, according to a federal complaint filed in Detroit on Aug. 26. […]

Governor DeSantis Revokes Permits For Flock Cameras On Florida State Highways Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered the removal of all Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras from state highway right-of-ways, citing privacy, data, and systematic surveillance concerns. The Daily Caller reports that DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras to be removed from the […]

Chevron Nears Deal To Expand Venezuela Oil Operations Venezuela could soon become a much bigger part of Chevron’s global oil business, according to Bloomberg. The company is reportedly nearing an agreement to take control of operations at two large crude-producing areas in the country’s Carabobo region, adding access to substantial heavy-oil resources. The potential expansion comes as Washington seeks to attract more American […]

The State Is Coming For Your Roomba Authored by Thiago V. S. Coelho via The Mises Institute, The federal government has discovered another menace to the republic: the vacuum cleaner. In July, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List, generally preventing new models from receiving the authorization needed to be imported, marketed, or sold in the United States. […]

Trump Mentions Tapping The ‘Older Stuff’ While Dismissing Reports Of Missile Shortages The below Trump exchange with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday seems a tacit admission from the Commander-in-Chief that yes, the United States is running out of standoff munitions… Q: Several military leaders have reportedly told Hegseth that a prolonged, large-scale operation in Iran weakens our ability to confront threats elsewhere, […]

Federal Judge Blocks New York From Enforcing $75 Billion Climate Superfund Law Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to impose an estimated $75 billion in charges on carbon-emitting companies for allegedly causing climate damage between 2000 and 2018. Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes in Syracuse, New York, sided with 22 […]

“State Terrorism”: Putin Blasts Zelensky After Wild Threat Of Drone Attacks To ‘De Facto Close’ Russian Airspace Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky just issued a crazy and unexpected threat which portends a major escalation in the war. Certainly it will provoke the Kremlin into even more uncontrolled escalation and massive strikes, such as has been (somewhat unusually) happening on Odesa port as well as the capital city of […]

Netanyahu Boasts Of Years-Long Effort To Convince US To Launch War Against Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted of his efforts to convince the US to launch a war against Iran, crediting his frequent appearances on US television networks and his “intimate knowledge” of US leaders. Netanyahu made the comments Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 14, and a clip of his […]

Iran Targets Marine Barracks In Jordan, Sends Drones On Bahrain & Kuwait, After Trump’s New Strikes Summary Explosions in Jordan reported amid initial Iranian retaliation, drones on Bahrain. Reports of fresh US strike wave on southern Iran, oil soars Bessent Says Hormuz Will Be “Worthless Piece of Water” In Two Years Iran offers conditional ceasefire: Pezeshkian says Iran will return to talks if the US honors prior […]

‘Daddy’s Savings Account’: Two More NYC-DSA Leaders Caught Living The Capitalist Dream A pair of New York City’s leading Democratic Socialists live in Brooklyn apartments that would be pure fantasy for the working-class Americans they claim to champion, according to the New York Post, the latest installment in a running audit of the personal real estate of the organization that put Zohran Mamdani in Gracie Mansion. The report […]

Top US General Says No Plans To Deploy Troops To Polling Sites In November Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. military has no plans to send troops or other personnel to polling places during November’s midterm elections, the top U.S. general has said. Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was responding to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who had asked him and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in an […]

Trump Admin Urges SCOTUS To Step In On Military Trans Ban The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its ban on transgender troops serving in the military, appealing a lower court ruling that has, for now, blocked enforcement against service members already in uniform. Vin Testa waves a LGBTQ pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. Getty Images The petition targets a […]

How Capitalism Reduces Poverty And Creates Wealth Authored by James T. Moodey via American Thinker, The word capitalism was coined in the 1700s. The definition was vague. It generally meant “private property traded freely” or “free markets.” However, most non-totalitarian countries had free markets, and these countries in Europe and elsewhere were not particularly wealthy. Their rural people were paupers living off the land, even […]

Clyburn Calls For Packing The Court With “Baker’s Dozen” To Flip Cases Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) added his voice to expand the Supreme Court to a “baker’s dozen,” or thirteen members to allow Democrats to add justices who agree with him and Democratic members on how the law must be interpreted. In the meantime, as discussed earlier, court packing is […]

NY Prosecutor Says He Was Told To ‘Find Crimes’ To Target Trump Allies A veteran prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says he was ordered to find crimes to pin on people connected to President Donald Trump, and the fallout left him on paid leave within days. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who moved into James’ Investor Protection Bureau, sent an email to roughly 2,000 colleagues on Friday […]

Pentagon Launches Grok And ChatGPT For Military Use Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, The Department of War announced the launch of two new artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for military use on Aug. 31, expanding the department’s platform of AI assistants for military personnel. Starshield AI’s Grok for Government and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil were both added to the War Department’s GenAI.mil generative AI platform […]

As Diesel Crack Explodes Higher, DNB Warns Beijing Has “Little Reason” To Rescue The West Bloomberg’s NYMEX one-month heating-oil/crude spread, tracked on the Terminal as the HOCL1 Index, breached $100 per barrel early Tuesday before surging to nearly $106 by late morning. The historic blowout is a major warning that refinery outages in Russia (read Goldman’s latest diesel warning), restrictions on industrial fuel exports, and […]

Republican Campaign Arms Ask Supreme Court To Restore Cheapest TV Ad Rates Ahead Of Midterms Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Republican committees have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow them access to lowest-rate television ads before the November midterms after a federal appeals court ruled that only candidates are entitled to the special campaign rate required by law. The Supreme Court in Washington on Aug. 31, […]