Saudi Pipeline Shutdown Crisis Deepens
September 12th, 2026Via: The War Zone:
The pipeline was shut down a day after the Houthi rebels of Yemen increased their control over the crucial Bab al-Mandab Strait (BAM), a narrow body of water separating the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden. Combined with Iran vastly curtailing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, this gives Tehran significant control over two of the world’s most crucial passageways for the flow of oil.
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SAUDI EAST-WEST PIPELINE ATTACKED BY DRONES, BADLY DAMAGED
September 11th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
Open source satellite imaging has shown the crucial ‘Hormuz bypass’ East-West oil pipeline that cuts straight across Saudi Arabia has been on fire. A some 80km to 100km giant smoke plume has been observed. The damaged section is said to be located near the town of Al Mesba’ah.
Amid speculation that this is probably the result of a major Houthi attack out of Yemen, CNN in a new Friday report cites two US officials who’ve given confirmation that the pipeline was struck by projectiles on Thursday. Iraq was named as possible attack origin point. According to the report:
An early analysis found that pump stations, which are located next to the pipeline itself, were hit, one of the US officials said. A satellite image taken Friday appears to show extensive fire damage at one pumping station, and an image of a different pumping station, taken Thursday, showed a small fire sending up plumes of thick, black smoke.
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09/11 25 Years – The Wound Never Healed
September 11th, 2026Via: Richard Dolan:
U.S. Diesel Prices Top $6 a Gallon for First Time Ever
September 11th, 2026Via: OilPrice:
The national average price for diesel fuel in the United States topped $6 per gallon for the first time this Thursday, adding to already considerable pain at the pump ahead of the November midterm elections.
The data comes from GasBuddy, which said in a statement that “As diesel climbs, higher supply chain costs work their way into the price of groceries, household goods, deliveries, and countless other products families rely on every day, even for households that never fuel a diesel vehicle.” Diesel prices in the U.S. are $2.30 higher than they were a year ago.
Trump Offers $5000 Bribe to Americans to Vote for Republicans in Midterm Election
September 10th, 2026“Because of our tremendous strength and success economically…”
With poll numbers in the gutter, President Trump seems to have moved to bribery for the upcoming elections — $5,000 for Americans if the Republicans win.
Could the Democrats offer up $6,000 if they win?
Could there be a bribery bidding war?
Should Americans be bribed (with… https://t.co/hF2tTYZrLn
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) September 10, 2026
Also…
Via: Newsweek:
During the RNC midterm convention, President Donald Trump gave voters a financial incentive to vote for Republicans in the midterms.
About an hour into his speech, Trump said that if Republicans win the House and the Senate he’ll issue a $5,000 dividend check to millions of Americans because of the economic prosperity the country will experience. Trump said America was making “so much money” that he was able to promise Americans thousands of dollars in the future.
“Because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” Trump said. “Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders.”
China’s Oil Scramble Sends African, Canadian, Latin American Crude Prices Soaring
September 9th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
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 new Bloomberg report.
Anthropic Researcher: “The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade”
September 9th, 2026I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
Via: TechCrunch:
An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will end up killing us all.
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who said in a social media post Tuesday evening that he spent the last three years working on pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, accused the firms of failing to act responsibly. He said the people racing to build this technology “earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Coxon wrote in a thread on X.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
September 9th, 2026Via: The American Prospect:
Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.
U.S. Destroys Iranian Oil Tankers Near Kharg Island
September 8th, 2026Via: New York Post:
American forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and Jask on Tuesday as the US added military might to its economic squeeze of the Islamic Republic.
US Central Command said in a statement that it carried out the strikes that downed five Iranian crude oil carriers in response to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) targeting of an American warship with ballistic missiles in the last two days.
