Trump Allows Farm Diesel for Vehicles Used on Public Roads
October 6th, 2026Via: CNBC:
President Donald Trump has allowed the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel, typically reserved for farm operations, to be used more broadly in an attempt to bring down record-high fuel costs.
Trump signed an executive order Monday evening stateside to temporarily allow truckers and farmers to use red-dyed diesel — which is exempt from highway fuel taxes — and deferred related taxes on the fuel through the end of this year.
The tax-free diesel is typically used by farm equipment, construction machinery, trucks and other off-road vehicles. It is therefore exempt from a 24.4-cent-per-gallon tax applied to diesel fuel sold for highway transportation.
Using dyed diesel in vehicles operated on public roads is considered illegal, and could result in fines for tax evasion. But several states this year have relaxed restrictions on the tax-exempt diesel to help Americans cope with surging fuel prices.
British Whistleblower Who Revealed Howard Lutnick’s Links to Jeffrey Epstein Found Hanged in Thailand
October 6th, 2026It’s so much worse than anyone knows, especially the 9/11 stuff. Will be covering new findings on that front in my next investigation with @markgoodw_in , out later this month.
For now, all I can say is, you don’t hate Lutnick enough.— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) October 5, 2026
Via: Daily Mail:
A British banker who revealed links between Jeffrey Epstein and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick died from hanging in Thailand, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Simon Andriesz was found dead in a town just outside Bangkok on the morning of September 23.
The whistleblower had claimed his former employer Mr Lutnick – a key aide of Donald Trump – failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier.
The banker uncovered emails from 2018 which he claimed showed Mr Lutnick and Epstein were discussing a start-up business in which they had involvement.
Epstein died in prison one year later. The messages were exchanged a decade after the sex offender was convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a child.
Khlong Luang Town’s municipality office recorded the death of the 57-year-old Briton, who had worked on Wall Street but was recently living in Cornwall. His cause of death listed as ‘asphyxiation from hanging’.
BofA’s Urgent Warning to All Clients
October 5th, 2026Via: Steven Van Metre:
Russia: Plague?
October 5th, 2026Israel has already developed an experimental mRNA PLAGUE vaccine.
I will NOT be taking it.
I’d rather take my chances with doxycycline and its 97% SURVIVAL RATE. https://t.co/UK4ErTyaTJ
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) October 6, 2026
Via: CNBC:
Nearly 200 people have been placed under medical observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia over suspected exposure to plague, according to local media reports.
The report said 189 people were being monitored following the illness of an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Irkutsk. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the nearby Republic of Buryatia, said the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.
Russia’s public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said Sunday that the employee had been diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology” and that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region and the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov remained stable.
The agency said expanded testing had not detected microorganisms linked to the employee’s work.
Pentagon Wants On Demand Solar Power from Orbit
October 5th, 2026Via: Interesting Engineering:
A solar power startup has received backing from US authorities to design, build, and test a homing beacon that will enable its space-based solar energy system accurately beam power from orbit to receiving solar arrays on Earth.
Overview Energy secured the contract through the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF). The company announced the project on Wednesday, September 30.
The technology will allow the firm’s satellites to identify and authenticate receiver sites on the ground. Once a site is confirmed, the satellites could lock onto it and precisely beam energy from orbit to Earth. That said, satellites in geosynchronous orbit could receive sunlight around the clock.
The proposed satellites would collect sunlight in space and convert the captured energy into near-infrared light. The safe, invisible beam would then be directed toward existing and future utility-scale solar facilities on Earth.
U.S. Moves B-1B Bombers Out of Britain
October 5th, 2026Via: The War Zone:
U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers that had been deployed to RAF Fairford in the U.K. since operation Epic Fury have returned to their home stations, a U.S. defense official confirmed to TWZ. The hasty movement was reportedly sparked by new Iranian threats against the base, although the Pentagon doesn’t confirm that assertion.
The sudden withdrawal came a week after a major incident was declared near Fairford following the arrest of five men on suspicion of driving bomb-laden vans toward it. They were later released on bail after no explosives were found. However, Counter-Terrorism police are continuing the investigation and said they were considering ?whether a foreign ?state had ?been involved. On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the incident might have had an Iranian ?link.
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The U.S. withdrew all 12 B-1s “after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation,” The New York Times reported, citing two U.S. officials.
“The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone,” the publication added. “The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States. At least three of the planes had landed at their home base in South Dakota by Sunday.”
U.S. officials declined to tell the Times the specific nature of the new information that prompted the Lancer withdrawal, some of which had just arrived in the past week as part of a normal rotation of forces to maintain the B-1 forward presence in Europe.
“One U.S. official said the new information was part of the same threat warnings that surfaced three weeks ago, but specific details and a sense of urgency spiked in the past 24 hours, alarming commanders,” the publication noted.
U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier Towards Iran
October 2nd, 2026Via: Al Jazeera:
The United States is deploying a third US aircraft carrier to the waters around Iran, a US official told Al Jazeera, as the war enters its eighth month and both sides weigh escalation and diplomatic engagement.
The official told Al Jazeera that the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group left its San Diego base on Sunday, bound for the region, followed a day later by the Makin Island Marine Expeditionary Force, carrying more than 2,000 Marines.
By the end of November, the official said, three aircraft carriers and two amphibious landing groups will be positioned around Iran.
Riots in France
October 1st, 2026Via: Daily Mail:
Student protests have escalated into widespread riots in France with schools set on fire and teachers beaten and doused in petrol.
Rioters have unleashed chaos in major cities across the country after what started as largely peaceful demonstrations against the state of education descended into violent chaos.
Protests began last Monday, when students and teaching staff took to French towns and cities to demand the replacement of absent teachers, an increase of educational resources, school renovations and ‘decent’ learning conditions.
But disorder has spread since Tuesday with some 600 arrests and 85 police officers wounded.
The unrest gathered pace this week after the Left-wing mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, told protesters on Tuesday ‘violence can be legitimate’ in remarks that sparked fury across the country.
Amazon Prime
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The Coming GOP Bloodbath?
October 1st, 2026— cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 27, 2026
Via: Ron Paul:
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
There is little reason to cheer a Democratic party victory, however Republicans in charge have for the most part earned what is coming to them. They have refused to uphold their Constitutional obligation to take leading responsibility for war powers.
