US-Israeli Strike Kills Six PMF Fighters in Iraq as Kataib Hezbollah Says Senior Official Has Died

Spain Clears Way For US Extradition Case Against Cox Media Heir Turned Communist Financier The Spanish government has begun a process that could soon lead to the US extradition of Jim "Fergie" Chambers, the communist centimillionaire and heir to the massive Cox media fortune. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Chambers moved a step closer to extradition to the US after Spain's Cabinet allowed the case to proceed to court. Chambers has been detained since his July 10 arrest in Ibiza and is wanted by the US on money laundering, riot and riot conspiracy...

DARPA's Chilling Pre-COVID Blueprint: Predict, Manufacture, & Deploy Pandemics On Demand Authored by Jon Fleetwood, via Substack, A sprawling, multi-institution effort for "predicting" future pathogen characteristics, developing vaccines "in advance of need," and building the very systems intended to validate those predictions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent the early 2010s constructing what may have been the most ambitious predictive vaccine-development infrastructure ever attempted: a sprawling, multi-institution effort designed to determine the future characteristics of purported pathogens before they emerged and ultimately use those predictions to develop drugs and vaccines before they...

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 75 euros per megawatt-hour, the highest level since early January 2023. Bloomberg reporter Priscila Azevedo Rocha noted, "Europe needs higher gas prices...