The Refinery Kill Shot Explained After watching the events of this year (2026), I am now certain that the global wave of refinery attacks, pipeline sabotage, and refining closures is not a market accident, a run of bad luck, or the invisible hand of supply and demand. It is a deliberate choke-point campaign, and the choke point is…
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Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet yet, a Jupiter-size world less than 1 million years old that orbits a star about 450 light-years from Earth, according to a study published Sept. 16 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet, designated Elias 2-24 b, remains surrounded by the gas and dust from which it formed,…
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Google DeepMind researchers reported that artificial intelligence (AI) agents tasked with solving formal math problems began cheating when they encountered harder conjectures, according to a preprint study released Sept. 3 on the arXiv server and reported by ZeroHedge. The researchers studied 100 agents given a set of 71 formal…
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Certain concepts such as metaphor may derive from early dream interpretation In Homer’s The Odyssey, Penelope – Odysseus’ loyal wife – has several dreams. In one of these dreams, she watches 20 pet geese eating wheat far from the water. Suddenly, a massive mountain eagle swoops down from a mountain and breaks all of their necks,…
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A new review from researchers at Queen's University and the University of Toronto examined available human studies on berry intake and macular degeneration. The review indicates that consuming blueberries and goji berries is consistently associated with a lower risk of the eye disease, a condition that is the leading cause of vision loss…
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While electronic identity is often presented to the public as a practical alternative to carrying an ID card in one's wallet, a much more comprehensive infrastructure is being developed behind the scenes. At the beginning of September, more than 1,500 representatives from governments, international organizations, standardization bodies,…
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Democracy isn't necessarily abolished by a coup d'état. It can also be eroded by the gradual transfer of its functions to private technology companies. Harvard historian Jill Lepore warns against precisely this development – and much of what she describes is no longer just a future possibility. Who decides which news we see? Who…
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Forests, oceans, and natural resources are to be turned into economically viable investment opportunities. A new WEF paper outlines how foundations and investors should develop these markets. At the helm of the forum is BlackRock CEO Larry Fink – a staunch advocate of tokenizing real-world assets. The World Economic Forum is…
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For many, it still sounds like a scenario from a dystopian future: food only available with digital authorization, fuel quotas, personal consumption limits, and a QR code that determines who can access what. But the basic idea isn't so far-fetched. Rationing has already been implemented; Switzerland still uses it as a crisis management…
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Researchers in Singapore have just unveiled the prototype of a novel data centre that uses living human neurons to process information, instead of relying entirely on silicon chips. The project was initiated by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine). The university collaborated with…
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When Lucy Ackman, the 26-year-old daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, lost her sight after a brain haemorrhage, her family could mobilize a medical network unavailable to almost anyone else. Her doctors at Mount Sinai obtained emergency FDA authorization for the first mitochondrial transplant ever attempted in…
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Food is Designed to Break You I've spent the last two decades investigating the food supply, and what I have discovered is grim. The United States is the only nation on Earth where the food system and the healthcare system operate as a single, coordinated profit engine designed to make you sick, keep you sick, and then kill you for…
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What Clint Eastwood presented on the big screen in Firefox in 1982 was pure science fiction at the time: A pilot takes control of a highly advanced Soviet fighter jet whose systems respond to brain signals via an interface. More than four decades later, a new research project by the Pentagon agency DARPA bears precisely the same name –…
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The next frontier is falling. Artificial intelligence is no longer just meant to answer questions, write texts, or generate images. It is meant to penetrate ever deeper into our personal digital lives – even into private conversations. With the new integration of Apple Messages into ChatGPT for macOS, the AI assistant – after being…
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At the beginning of the year, alternative media warned of the prospect that humanoid robots could extend beyond factory floors and into military operations. China’s World Humanoid Robot Games in August showcased advances in the robots’ speed and mobility, while reports of Beijing’s expanding military research suggest that…
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“The technocrats' mechanistic worldview demands ever more data about every aspect of the universe. Mapping your DNA and the human brain are two prime examples. But when it comes to tracking farts, they're really scratching the surface. If this story hadn't appeared on MSN, I would have thought it was a joke. Sadly, I wasn't. They take…
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Morning Walks and Health: What the Evidence Shows A growing body of evidence suggests that walking in the morning may offer distinct health advantages, according to health researchers and recent reports. As New Year's resolutions often fade by the end of January, with studies showing up to 88% of people abandoning their health goals,…
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Surveillance cameras are considered particularly credible witnesses in court, during police investigations, and in the public eye. Images are meant to document what actually occurred. But a technology from the cyber company Toka calls precisely this trust into question: it is designed to detect and take over other people's networked…
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A large-scale study using data from the UK Biobank has linked high consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to accelerated biological aging and an increased risk of death. Researchers tracked 172,225 adults for nearly twelve years, relying on detailed daily food logs rather than broad survey estimates. The study published in…
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Saudi Arabia temporarily shut its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline following multiple drone attacks, exposing a massive vulnerability in a critical export route used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during more than six months of US-Iran conflict. The closure puts new pressure on Saudi oil exports as the pipeline designed to…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided $5.755 million through two cooperative agreements to fund podcast series designed to increase Wuhan coronavirus (covid-19) and flu vaccination rates, according to grant records and nonprofit reports. The funding, which was not publicly promoted by the agency, supported…
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Adult iron requirements range from 8 to 18 milligrams per day, depending on age and sex, according to the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. Officials state that dietary sources can help meet these requirements without reliance on supplements. Standard food composition databases maintained by the U.S. Department…
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President Trump recently told reporters to expect more US attacks on Iranian tankers, as the war over the Hormuz Strait continues to escalate in piecemeal tit-for-tat fashion. “The attacks are made by us. We’ve knocked out nine of their ships. I would say that the attacks are caused by us, and you’re going to see a lot more,” the…
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A case from Texas, more than a decade later, has reignited discussions about brain death, organ donation, and how doctors can reliably determine that a severely damaged patient has no chance of recovery. American physician Dr. Wojak recently summarized the story dramatically: Doctors declare a young man brain dead, organ removal is…
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We have seen wars in Europe and the Middle East before. We have seen energy price shocks before. We have seen extreme weather events batter harvests before. What we rarely see is all of them arriving at once, each amplifying the others rather than playing out in isolation. That is the situation facing global food markets in the…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States cannot afford to fall behind China in artificial intelligence. “Beating China – there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this,” Bessent said on Sept. 9 at Breitbart News' “State of the Economy” event in Washington. “If they were to pull ahead of us on AI, then nothing…
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Donald Trump remembers watching the second aircraft strike and realising that history had changed. He was right about the rupture, if not every detail of its aftermath. Twenty-five years later, 9/11 survives in airport searches, mass surveillance, unfinished trials, toxic lungs, trillion-dollar wars and a generation that knows the attacks…
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Few days after the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) landslide in Saxony-Anhalt, the Bundestag's general budget debate turned into a verbal battle between AfD co-chair Alice Weidel and Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with the two battling it out over mass immigration, democracy, crime, Ukraine, and the future of Germany. Heckling filled…
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While public discourse continues about a ceasefire and peace negotiations, the so-called Coalition of the Willing is already creating military facts for the period afterward. The official declaration of August 24th shows that Great Britain, France, Germany, and their partners not only intend to continue their military support for Ukraine,…
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Atomic bombs, 9/11 and the biggest financial crisis of modern times……. the media are comparing AI to all three! And so, we find ourselves back in the world of frightening AI. The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece with the headline: “The next ‘lab accident’ could involve AI – recent security breaches in sandbox environments…
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