“We’re At A Tipping Point” – Trucking Industry Facing “Horrible” Rates, Tariffs, Werner CEO Says By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves, At the WEX OTR Summit, Derek Leathers, chairman and CEO of Werner Enterprises, warned of tight capacity and higher operating costs in the trucking industry. “We’re at a tipping point,” Leathers told attendees. “Capacity is leaving the market little by little. The industry needs significant rate […]

Nearly One-Third Of EV Charging Attempts Fail, Report Finds By Thomas Wasson of FreightWaves A newly released report by ChargerHelp! shows that while 64% of Americans now live within two miles of an electric vehicle charging station, nearly one-third of charging attempts fail. Despite charging infrastructure showing 98.7% to 99% uptime rates, only 71% of charging attempts actually succeed, according to the 2025 EV Charging […]

Cartels Dox, Set $10K Bounties To Kill US Immigration Officials: DHS Cartels have doxxed and put bounties of the heads of several federal immigration officials – offering $10,000 to kill or $2,000 to capture them, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Sunday. She did not specify whether the bounties applied to a particular agency such as ICE, or the US Border Patrol. “We have specific agents who have had bounties […]

All Talked Out? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities This is not something I can say every day, but I feel “all talked out.”  We just concluded our annual Annapolis Geopolitical Summit. Turnout was amazing as the summit grows year after year. We covered a range of topics, with not only our Generals and Admirals (ret.) contributing, but also the influence from our former CIA officers and some of the industry specialists who […]

Goldman On NatGas: “From US Congestion Concerns To Tight 2026”  U.S. natural gas futures surged 17.3% last week, the largest weekly gain since early May. Goldman Sachs analysts offered context for the rally, noting that the market narrative has shifted “from U.S. storage congestion fears to tightening 2026 supply.” A team of Goldman analysts led by Samantha Dart, senior energy strategist, explained that the jump in NatGas […]

US Postal Service Mail Carrier Shot By Amazon Driver By Eric Kullisch of FreightWaves A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot in the face during an altercation Friday afternoon in Everett, Washington, and a rival package delivery driver is in custody, according to local police and a postal inspector. The incident took place at the West Mall Place Apartments. The victim was transported to Providence Hospital with a gunshot wound, […]

“Two Bullets To The Head”: Dem AG Nominee Jay Jones Fantasized About Shooting Republican Lawmaker President Trump on Truth Social called on “radical leftist lunatic” Democratic Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones to step down after leaked text messages surfaced showing him creepily fantasizing about killing a Republican lawmaker and his children. This shocking revelation comes after years of Democrats labeling Trump and […]

Is Nuclear The Key To Powering The Data Center Boom Nainish Gupta is director of renewable energy certificate portfolio and regulatory compliance at POWWR. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant on the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. The 1979 calamity, which released radioactive material into the environment, cast nuclear energy as a dangerous endeavor […]

Oil Prices Set To Jump After OPEC+ Raises Output By Far Less Than Expected OPEC+ will raise oil output from November by 137,000 barrels per day, it said on Sunday, opting for the same fairly modest monthly increase as in October and far less than the 500k+ speculated by the Bloomberg “source” who continues to be short oil and appears to buy every dip.  The group consisting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries […]

Stablecoin Market Boom To $300B Is ‘Rocket Fuel’ For Crypto Rally Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The record $300 billion stablecoin market capitalization may signal that more investor capital is flowing onchain, which could act as “rocket fuel” for cryptocurrency valuations, according to market analysts. The total stablecoin supply has reached a new record of over $300 billion on Friday, marking a 46.8% […]

Russian Attack Targets Military-Industrial Sites In Western Ukraine, Near Poland Largescale overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine reportedly hit major arms production facilities and the energy infrastructure supplying them, according to a Russian Defense Ministry announcement. State media has listed targets hit included Sumy, Kharkov, Ivano-Frankovsk, Vinnitsa, Poltava, Chernigov and Odessa regions, with bombardments in Lviv region […]

Watch: Scott Jennings Unloads On Leftists Calling Antifa Attacks “Protests” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The only sane voice on CNN, Scott Jennings, blasted leftists for repeatedly referring to the terroristic attacks on ICE facilities as “protests.” “I’m getting pretty sick of Democrats calling it a ‘protest’ when Antifa attacks law enforcement and federal facilities,” Jennings urged. “It’s a […]

Judge Blocks Trump’s Portland Guard Deployment Amid Antifa Violence; ICE Targeted In Chicago Vehicle-Ramming Attack A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying roughly 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, halting plans to protect federal assets and personnel amid Antifa-linked attacks on an ICE facility in the southern part of the metro area. Meanwhile, the White House is preparing to […]

Race To The Financial Dung Heap Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As I wrote just weeks ago, I believed (and still do) that any new market collapse could come at the hands of crypto and/or stablecoins, which have in many ways become an essentially unregulated $4 trillion slush-y money market fund reminiscent of 2008. But watching the headlines coming out of commercial real estate, private credit and subprime auto over the last […]

Dating App Fatigue Emerges  For half a century, how couples met in America was primarily shaped by family and friend networks, communities, churches, colleges, and workplaces – you know, just the traditional fabric of Western society. However, the advent of the internet and the rise of Big Tech, with its closely guarded algorithms (and now AI bots), have dramatically reshaped modern romance. Yet, new data from Goldman suggests […]

Can Private Investment Unlock A New Nuclear Energy Era Submitted by OilPrice.com, As several governments aim to battle climate change by shifting away from fossil fuels and pursuing a green transition, many are revisiting a long-overlooked energy source – nuclear power. Nuclear power was at the top of many countries’ energy agenda for several decades before a few notable nuclear disasters shifted the public perception of the […]

Saudi Arabia’s Spending Spree Meets Oil Price Reality Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, Saudi Arabia’s grand Vision 2030 ambitions may be colliding with a colder fiscal reality. Fitch Ratings warned Friday that Riyadh faces rising financial risks as oil prices soften and government spending balloons, threatening the kingdom’s plans for fiscal consolidation. The numbers tell the story: Saudi Arabia now expects a […]

Georgia Condemns ‘Coup Attempt’ After Pro-EU Protesters Try To Storm Presidential Palace Chaos has once again hit Georgia’s streets, as a large group of demonstrators attempted to storm the presidential palace in the capital Saturday, at a moment of controversial municipal elections. Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has gone so far as to describe unrest in the capital is an attempt to stage a coup in the country. “This is a […]

Was Scandinavia’s Russian Drone Scare A False Flag To Crack Down On Russia’s Shadow Fleet? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It’s highly suspicious that Zelensky just claimed without any evidence that they were launched by Russian tankers and subsequently demanded that Europe close the straits to its shipping in response… Unknown drones recently flew in close proximity to Danish and Norwegian airports, […]

ICE Agents Ambushed In Chicago As Trump Deploys National Guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were ‘rammed and boxed in by 10 cars’ in Broadview, Illinois on Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin in a statement to Fox News.  Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection walk along West Wacker Drive in the Loop in […]

“Czech Trump” Andrej Babis Wins Election, Returns As Prime Minister In Latest European Populist Revolt Billionaire Andrej Babis’s ANO party won the Czech Republic’s general parliamentary election on Saturday, and is set to return as prime minister to the central European country, raising the prospect of yet another splinter government within the EU bloc that would boost Europe’s populist, anti-immigration camp and reduce support for […]

Hegseth Removes Another Top Pentagon Official Friday saw more of the expected house-cleaning and reshuffling at the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth, as Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison has been fired. “Jon Harrison will no longer serve as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Navy. We are grateful for his service to the Department,” a Department of Defense (DOD) official said. Via The Daily Mail Harrison had been appointed to the […]

Deterring The Next Quasi-World War: China–Russia–North Korea Versus US Authored by Joseph Yizheng Lian via The Epoch Times, Russian planes recently flew into Polish and Romanian airspace to test NATO’s resolve while the world veers toward a conflict in Asia—one that could be far worse than the situation in Ukraine—where true deterrence and resolve remain largely absent. Let’s backtrack a little. On Sept. 3, Beijing […]

Trump To Slash Refugee Admissions By 94% From Biden Levels The Trump White House is poised to dramatically reduce the number of refugees that will be accepted into the United States over the next fiscal year — with the ceiling falling a whopping 94% from the limit set by the Biden administration, according to a New York Times report.  Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Times says a maximum of just 7,500 refugees would […]

Pakistan Offers Washington New Arabian Sea Port To Tap Critical Minerals Via The Cradle Advisers to Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir proposed to US officials the construction of a new port on the Arabian Sea near the borders with Afghanistan and Iran, according to a Financial Times report released Saturday, citing a plan reviewed by the outlet. The plan envisions US investors constructing and managing a terminal in […]