Green Steel: ArcelorMittal Finally Pulls The Plug Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the end, economic reality prevails. Green steel has no future in Germany, regardless of how much funding may continue to flow through the channels of the green subsidy machine: At Germany’s overregulated, energy-policy-driven and increasingly sidelined industrial location, industrial production is becoming less and less profitable. That ArcelorMittal, […]

China’s Oil Scramble Sends African, Canadian, Latin American Crude Prices Soaring China, the world’s largest oil importer, is bidding up crude prices across Africa, Canada, and Latin American markets as disruptions in the Hormuz chokepoint and limited Iranian supplies intensify competition for alternatives. The scramble is squeezing smaller Chinese refineries that once relied on heavily discounted Iranian barrels, according to a […]

The Future Of Volkswagen? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe On Thursday evening, Volkswagen’s Supervisory Board unanimously approved the company’s “Future Plan 2030.” The decision had originally been scheduled for Friday. By moving faster, Volkswagen is not only seeking to underline that the situation is genuinely serious, but also that it has recognized the danger and is now taking control of the situation again. Symbolism is […]

Europe Heads Toward Winter With Too Little NatGas And Skyrocketing Prices European natural gas prices are trading near their highest level in more than three years as the race to replenish storage puts a bid under prices, while ongoing disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz intensify competition for scarce LNG cargoes ahead of winter. On Tuesday morning, European natural gas benchmark futures edged up nearly 3% to trade around […]

Intense SoCal Heatwave Sparks Cooling Demand Surge, Testing Grid Reliability The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories across California’s Central Valley and coastal areas, including the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with more severe extreme heat warnings in parts of Southern California. Cooling demand is expected to soar over the next several days, putting pressure on the power grid, particularly in the evening as solar […]

NIH Ends Biodefense Focus, Signs Pact With Department Of War Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Senior officials inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were baffled late last week when Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro issued a statement that Pentagon officials are trying to “raid” NIH funds to cover defense shortfalls. “The administration must provide Congress with a full accounting of how […]

Lindsay Clancy Supporters Threaten The Father Of The Children She Murdered Patrick Clancy, the father of three children killed by his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, inside the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, is now the target of an online harassment campaign built on the false claim that he was involved in their deaths. The claim has no foundation. Lindsay Clancy confessed. She never disputed killing her […]

Most US Workers Fear Obsolescence In AI Era, Experts Say Adaptation Goes Beyond Tech Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Just as “The Obsolete Man,” which aired in 1961, depicted a future society in which technology had rendered certain professions obsolete, a recent survey showed that, as AI reshapes the workplace, most U.S. workers fear becoming obsolete in the future workforce and believe developing new skills is […]

China’s “Quasi-Monopolistic” Grip On Critical Materials Ignites Western Supply Race: First To Deliver Wins Big The global push toward electrification carries several risks, including replacing dependence on foreign oil and natural gas with reliance on Chinese technology and critical materials, as access to cheap electricity dictates investment flows and where AI and industrial bases thrive. Christian Keller, Barclays’ global head […]

US Navy’s New Air-To-Air Missile AIM-424 Malice: Countering China’s Growing Airpower By Rick Fisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. With its revealed range in “excess of 250 nautical miles” (287 miles), the U.S. Navy’s new long-range air-to-air missile (AAM) constitutes a major upgrade in the ability of the United States to arrest China’s quest for superior air power in Asia. On May 7, […]

Iran Says Basij Force Commander Killed In Mystery Insurgent ‘Terror Attack’ American and Israeli officials have continued to speculate about fomenting some kind of internal rebellion or large-scale street uprising inside Iran, in hopes of toppling the leadership of the Islamic Republic. Bombs have largely fallen silent, for now. But the longer the Iran war drags on, amid sporadic tit-for-tat action between US and Iranian forces as […]

Mamdani’s 9/11 Pen: A Socialist’s Contempt For The Dead Authored by Kyle McClay via American Thinker, On Friday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed two executive orders commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Then he handed the ceremonial pen to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem – a man who spent years defending an al-Qaeda terrorist whose brother-in-law helped fly a plane into the Pentagon. […]

China Halts New Battery Storage Plant Approvals By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com China has paused approvals for new battery storage factories amid a review of existing and planned capacity, Chinese financial news outlet Cailianshe reported this weekend, citing industry sources. The temporary suspension of approvals of plants that have not started construction yet comes amid growing concerns about overcapacity in the sector […]

Trump Claims Firefighters Rescued Him From 9/11 Ground Zero: “Got To Get Out Of Here!” President Trump has already attracted immense controversy when starting last month it became clear he is planning to hold Sept. 11 observances at the Pentagon, which was also struck. He’s not planning to attend the more traditional ceremony and venue in Manhattan for the 25th anniversary of 9/11 in part because he wants to deliver a speech, says […]

US Breakthrough Could Build Hypersonic Shields, Rocket Parts In A Fraction Of The Time Authored by Christopher McFadden via Interesting Engineering, John Hopkins APL researchers have found a way to dramatically speed up the way that carbon-carbon composites can be created. The new approach, the research team explains, could replace the current slow, labor-intensive process, ultimately slashing the cost of production. Representative […]

Chinese Chipmakers Buy 3-Year Sanctions Buffer As Huawei Spearheads Domestic Juggernaut Right now, Chinese open-weight AI models are on the cusp of dominating closed-weight US frontier models in both price and performance. All ten of the top open-weight models on Artificial Analysis’s spring Intelligence Index came from China-based labs, and the best sat just six points behind the leading closed model; Chinese models also passed […]

Massive Escalation: Iran Sends Large Ballistic Missile Salvo On Jordan Bases, After US Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers Summary US Strikes Iran: US forces reportedly hit Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and Jask. Iran Targets US Ships & Jordan: Iran reportedly launched another attack on US naval assets, though no American ships were hit, say US officials. Ballistic missiles raining down on Jordan overnight.  Oil Near […]

The Democratic Chicken… Or The Socialist Egg? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The primaries are over, and the November general election looms… Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker – who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that “someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews” – is persona non […]

Where’s The 1929-Style Collapse MSM Predicted? UBS Finds Global Exports Surging To “Historically High Levels” Last year, lefty corporate media outlets pushed the narrative that President Trump’s trade war with the world could trigger a 1929-style economic collapse. However, a new UBS report presents a markedly different picture: global trade growth is running at historically high levels, supported by AI-related demand and rising […]

25 State AGs Urge Defunding Of National Academies Of Sciences, Allege Bias On Climate Lawsuits Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, A coalition of 25 state attorneys general called on federal agencies and Congress to defund the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), charging that the organization had used taxpayer dollars to produce reports that supported plaintiffs in climate lawsuits against […]

Consumer Credit Smashes Estimates As Credit Card Debt Hits New All-Time High The relevering of the US consumer continues: one month after the June consumer credit number came higher than estimates (and followed the unexpected May contreaction in US credit), in July consumer credit came in even higher than expected, with the Fed reporting in its latest G.19 report that in July, US consumer credit rose by a whopping $18.1BN – more […]

Good Faith Vs Bad Faith Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “In conditions of mass democracy, the soft and the infantilising will be preferred over the hard and the necessary again and again.” – Eugyppius on X Clusterfuck Nation never sleeps, even while everybody else lays aside their labors. Later today we’ll light up the ceremonial grill, but for now it’s onto the tribulations of this dolorous moment in […]

When Will There Be An ‘Alternative For Canada’? Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via Bombthrower, On Sunday, Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland won Saxony-Anhalt, which shouldn’t really surprise anyone, but is being treated by the media like some kind of Black Swan event, blindsiding us all. The AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its result from five years ago and crushing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU, which came in […]

New York Officials Lied About Air Quality After 9/11, New Documents Show Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, New York City has agreed to release new documents showing that officials lied about the air quality in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The more than 170,000 pages of documents are being released by NYC in response to the transparency organization 9/11 Health Watch, which had sued to […]

Mamdani Turns City Hall Into A Socialist Union-Organizing-Machine New York City has established a government office to assist worker in unionizing, following an executive order announced by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Labor Day. The Mayor’s Office of Worker Power aims to help workers “get informed, connected and organized” to facilitate union formation. City Hall has not yet released information on the office’s budget or […]