Source: CNN
“Saudi Arabia said it shot down a Houthi drone on the outskirts of Islam’s holiest city Mecca on Tuesday –– prompting swift regional condemnation of the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group. It’s the first time that the Houthis have targeted Mecca in almost a decade, since a ballistic missile attack was intercepted in 2017, according to Turki al-Maliki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led Coalition Forces. The Houthis quickly denied threatening Mecca, with military spokesman Yahya Saree saying early Wednesday that its targets were Saudi oil facilities and military bases ‘far removed from the holy places.'” (09/16/26)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/middleeast/saudi-arabia-houthis-mecca-attack-intl-hnk
Source: Agorist Nexus
by Derek R Wills
“Black markets are often dismissed with prejudice by the general population due to the state’s conditioning that they are inherently immoral, unethical, and evil. Even when presented with evidence of the state’s hand as the root cause of violent outcomes — such as the prime example of alcohol prohibition — the average person continues the misguided belief that malum prohibitum is still a justifiable excuse for the state’s use of force. After all, if the legislature declares a voluntary exchange illegal, then the exchange itself somehow becomes immoral, and the state’s guns become virtuous. Black markets are condemned by habit, not by reason. The average mind has been trained to recoil at the term and to associate unlicensed commerce with violence, chaos, and predation. This is not only backwards but objectively false.” (09/15/26)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/on-black-markets/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s Free $5,000 Dividend.” (09/15/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBnE4o6q2yE
Source: Forbes
“Major cryptocurrency assets slid Tuesday as the Senate failed to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which seeks to create a federal regulatory framework for digital assets and faces opposition from some Democrats who say the legislation’s provisions are too weak. The CLARITY Act, which needed 60 votes to pass the Senate, failed after a 49-50 vote was held. Bitcoin dropped 4.1% on Tuesday afternoon to around $75,000, falling to its lowest point in its last five days of trading. Ethereum fell over 5% to $2,397, also recording its lowest point in the same period. … The CLARITY Act will have to be reintroduced to Congress at a later date after failing Tuesday, meaning it is seriously unlikely it will be presented in front of lawmakers again before the end of the year as midterm elections approach.” (09/15/26)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/09/15/bitcoin-ethereum-and-other-major-cryptocurrencies-tumble-as-clarity-act-fails/
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
‘The biggest reason to oppose use of ALPRs is that they create an ongoing, persistent, nationwide web of warrantless search and surveillance that encompasses everyone who drives, without probable cause to believe that those drivers have committed particular crimes or even that those particular crimes have actually occurred. That’s something the government isn’t supposed to be able to do. It’s also something the government doesn’t NEED to do.” (09/15/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20897
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval. The roll call late Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. … Congress has tried repeatedly to alter the trajectory of the war against Iran, but efforts to limit the Trump administration’s military action remain a long shot so long as the president can fend off or veto the measures.” [editor’s note: Joint resolutions are binding and can’t be vetoed, and one has already passed; since the votes aren’t there to impeach and remove the crook, he’ll continue his crimes – TLK] (09/16/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/16/us-house-votes-to-end-iran-war-7-republicans-join-in-favour
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“President Trump has justified tanking the US economy by claiming the attack on Iran was essential because they were about to get a nuclear weapon. Our intelligence community disagreed, but he refused to listen and took his cue from Netanyahu instead. It turns out Iran actually does have a ‘nuclear weapon.’ That weapon is the ability to control the world’s oil flows at a margin high enough to cripple the economies of any country seeking to conquer it.” (09/15/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/09/14/the-crippling-effects-of-unnecessary-war
Source: Politico
“Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an extraordinary attempt by members of the president’s own party to oust a Pentagon chief. The articles are for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the war in Iran, the Trump administration’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Hegseth’s alleged suppression of free speech in his fight with Democrats over their calls for troops to refuse illegal orders. Massie’s effort is unlikely to succeed in a GOP-controlled Congress. But the nature of the resolution means the House will be forced to vote on it this week, setting up a politically complicated vote for Republicans right before the midterm elections.” (09/15/26)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/15/congress/massie-hegseth-impeachment-01077453
Source: spiked
by Frank Furedi
“I have studied scaremongering and the culture of fear for almost three decades. It’s clear to me that the current AI doomsday narrative recycles several older panics simultaneously. Just as with the invention of the nuclear bomb, humanity feared an invention it could not control. When computers and the internet were created, we feared technological displacement. And there is the older philosophical fear that humanity’s own intelligence could be the source of its undoing. Each time, a rational assessment of the potential risks is shoved aside in favour of a narrative of an impending apocalypse. Yet when it comes to AI, I have found the evolution of this carefully staged exercise in scaremongering different in some respects.” (09/15/26)
https://archive.is/61Z3z
Source: WSMV 4 News
“The intelligence services of the Russian Federation are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the United States and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday as they announced charges against five people who remain at large. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network of the intelligence services has paid and attempted to pay individuals in the United States and in other countries to surveil targets to be killed with plans to then kill them. … James C. Barnacle, Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said the FBI disrupted the plans ‘through relentless work’ as members of the Russian Intelligence Services and their affiliates ‘conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on U.S. soil and around the world.'” (09/15/26)
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/09/16/fbi-disrupts-russian-plot-carry-out-targeted-killings-us-soil-indictment-says/
