September 23, 2026

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U.S Forces Help Move 1 Billion Barrels of Gulf Oil While Blockade Cuts Iran’s Exports to Zero– slaynews.com

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U.S Forces Help Move 1 Billion Barrels of Gulf Oil While Blockade Cuts Iran’s Exports to Zero– slaynews.com
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U.S. forces have now helped move more than one billion barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz while simultaneously enforcing a naval blockade that has reduced Iran’s maritime oil exports to zero, U.S. Central Command has announced.

CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper said American forces reached the milestone after coordinating protection for more than 2,000 commercial ship transits through the critical waterway over the past several months.

“CENTCOM forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf,” Cooper said in a video statement.

“That’s one billion barrels of crude oil out through the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of months.”

The operation represents two parallel missions for the U.S. military: keeping one of the world’s most important energy corridors open to American partners while shutting Iran out of maritime trade.

More Than 2,000 Commercial Ships Protected

Cooper said American forces have helped clear the Strait’s primary shipping lanes of mines while providing coordinated protection to commercial vessels.

“We’ve reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2,000 commercial ship transits through the Strait by providing coordinated protection,” Cooper said.

“Clearly, momentum is building. Primary transit lanes in the Strait are clear of mines.”

The Consent Decree Between Paramount And California Is Insane– thefederalist.com

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The Consent Decree Between Paramount And California Is Insane– thefederalist.com
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Democracy is that Democrats oversee television news. Take it from Gavin Newsom’s halfwit communications director, who looks like he was rejected as an extra for High School Musical:

 

See, now a state government with single-party rule has “oversight” authority with news organizations, which preserves the independence of the journalists. For media, “independence” is when the news answers to the attorney general of California.

Pressured by the rise of streamers, the traditional movie studios Paramount and Warner Bros. pursued a merger to make a giant studio with a deep library of media product. Oleaginous California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued to stop the merger, joined by other Democrat AGs, with a bunch of far-left idiots cheering him on.

Breaking: Vance’s Task Force Purges 760,000 Names from Obamacare Rolls After Uncovering Rampant Fraud– www.westernjournal.com

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Breaking: Vance’s Task Force Purges 760,000 Names from Obamacare Rolls After Uncovering Rampant Fraud– www.westernjournal.com
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The biggest surgery in the history of Obamacare is about to amputate more than $2 billion in fraud.

The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by Vice President J.D. Vance, is cutting 760,000 individual accounts that are on the Affordable Care Act’s books,  administration officials said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, estimate canceling those accounts will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.

During the Biden administration, Obamacare enrollment increased from about 10 million people to more than 22 million.

Should Obamacare be ended?

A Department of Health and Human Services report issued this year estimated that nearly half of new Obamacare enrollments during Biden’s time in office were fraudulent.

CMS estimates that more than a million people never provided the required Social Security number when they enrolled.

Trump endorses diesel export ban as GOP frets over high prices– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Trump endorses diesel export ban as GOP frets over high prices– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump said he has called for a ban on diesel exports as his administration weighs options for curbing all-time high fuel prices driven by the conflicts in the Middle East and Europe.

“I’ve called for that too. I’ve said, let’s not send out the diesel,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Oil Men, Farmers And GOP Senators Clash Over Drastic Move That Trump Could Use To Lower Prices– dailycaller.com

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Oil Men, Farmers And GOP Senators Clash Over Drastic Move That Trump Could Use To Lower Prices– dailycaller.com
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As retail diesel prices skyrocket, reaching fresh record highs in September, some Republicans are pushing President Donald Trump to take drastic action to lower prices: banning diesel exports.

While the idea, floated by some vulnerable Republican Senate candidates and GOPers whose states’ economies are driven by the agricultural industry, has gained traction, it has also triggered pushback from another powerful business interest: Big Oil. (RELATED: ‘No Slack’ Left In US Refineries As Diesel Tops $6.50 A Gallon)

 

AI Creates One Million Jobs

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The Economist has estimated AI has created five jobs for every one job lost. Their study claims AI has caused 200,000 job cuts since mid-2023 while creating one million new jobs.

It’s Not All Doom and Gloom: AI Added 1 Million US Jobs, 5 for Every 1 Cut– www.westernjournal.com
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A wave of doomsday warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) is overshadowing a short-term bright spot: the technology appears to be creating American jobs even as it eliminates others.

U.S. employers cited AI in 116,175 announced job cuts through August, roughly 22% of all cuts announced in 2026, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Yet amid mounting warnings about AI’s threat to workers and even humanity, The Economist estimated in September that AI has created roughly 1 million American jobs compared with roughly 200,000 AI-attributed layoffs since mid-2023 — a ratio of about five jobs created for every one lost.

The figures are not directly comparable. Challenger tracked announced layoffs in which AI was cited as a reason, while The Economist estimated job creation using employment trends, AI-specific occupations and infrastructure hiring. Challenger has recorded roughly 188,000 announced cuts attributed to AI since it began tracking AI separately in 2023.

The broader labor market has so far avoided mass displacement. Employers added 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Sept. 4.

AI-related job creation is also extending beyond the workers constructing the data centers needed to power the technology.

Sam Altman Holds Secret Meetings with U.S Power Giants as OpenAI Pushes AI Grid ‘Security’– slaynews.com

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Sam Altman Holds Secret Meetings with U.S Power Giants as OpenAI Pushes AI Grid ‘Security’– slaynews.com
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been quietly meeting with executives from some of America’s largest electric utility companies while warning that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems could pose a threat to the nation’s power grid.

Altman has spent years sounding the alarm about potentially dangerous AI systems while simultaneously pushing for government regulations that would place companies such as OpenAI at the center of the emerging AI oversight regime.

Now, the ChatGPT maker appears to be taking that same warning directly to America’s power industry, while pitching OpenAI’s own cybersecurity services as part of the solution.

According to Politico, Altman has held a series of private meetings with executives from major utilities including Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co., and NextEra Energy beginning in July.

One of the latest meetings took place Wednesday in Colorado during the annual gathering of the Edison Electric Institute.

The security of America’s electrical grid was reportedly a major topic.

Traffic In Strait Of Hormuz Passes Key Milestone, CENTCOM Says– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Traffic In Strait Of Hormuz Passes Key Milestone, CENTCOM Says– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday that American forces have supported the movement of more than one billion barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months while enforcing a total naval blockade on Iranian ports.

“CENTCOM forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf. That’s one billion barrels of crude oil out through the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of months,” CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced in a video statement.

Cooper said U.S. forces reached the figure while assisting more than 2,000 commercial ship transits. “We’ve reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2,000 commercial ship transits through the Strait by providing coordinated protection. Clearly, momentum is building. Primary transit lanes in the Strait are clear of mines,” he added.

Cooper continued, “Thousands of ships have passed through the Strait. Over one billion barrels of crude have been shipped from Gulf partners through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has exported zero barrels thanks to our ironclad blockade.”

The commander went on to state that volumes have increased in recent weeks and days. “The effort is paying off. The volume of crude oil, cargo, and liquid natural gas these past two weeks is higher than at any point in the past six months.” He further noted that CENTCOM was working with U.S. government agencies, the six Gulf Cooperation Council states, insurers, and shipping companies to raise traffic through the waterway.

Politicians Forgot Backup Power When They Pushed Clean Power in 13 States: Now Electric Bills Are Skyrocketing– www.westernjournal.com

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Politicians Forgot Backup Power When They Pushed Clean Power in 13 States: Now Electric Bills Are Skyrocketing– www.westernjournal.com
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Thirteen states from Vermont to Hawaii have written a hard deadline into law: 100 percent carbon-free (CO2-free) or “clean” electricity, most by 2040 or 2045. Lawmakers sold these mandates as a bargain: cheaper power alongside cleaner air. Voters in those states are struggling with ever-increasing electricity bills increasing faster than non-mandate states.

The metric politicians lean on to make that case is the “levelized cost of energy” (LCOE), which ranks wind and solar as the cheapest sources of generation on the grid.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration itself cautions that the ranking is misleading because LCOE reflects the cost to build and run a single generator.

It says nothing about whether that generator can deliver power at 6 p.m. on a windless February evening, exactly when a grid needs it most.

Energy analysts, Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, answer the question EIA’s own number dodges. Their “Always On Levelized Cost of Energy” (AOLOC) model adds back everything a bare LCOE figure leaves out: backup generation, transmission, overbuilt capacity and the power curtailed to keep intermittent resources reliable.

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MIA Weekly – Ease Amerika

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Anthropic Wants Progressive Extremists to Define the Future of AI

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has picked a panel of far-left, “woke” extremists to “protect” us from the evil AI apocalypse the progressive state media has been pushing. The “board” consists of children of wealthy progressives.

The guiding principle of the group is “Effective Altruism,” which requires a finite definition of value anti-progressives are sure to be existentially threatened by. For instance, this will place abortion in this hierarchy of value as a highly desired altruistic outcome and opposition to abortion in its hierarchy of value as being anathema to altruism, and thus a criminal activity.

AI’s New Watchdogs: Far-Left Globalists Bankrolled by the Same Billionaires They’re Supposed to Police– gellerreport.com
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Now that the Democrats’ climate-change hoax has been thoroughly exposed, they need a new Trojan horse for dismantling the West. Enter AI doomerism.

The same Anthropic that denied its use to the US military now wants government “regulation”, spearheaded with Bernie Sanders. It about control, power, and censorship.

AI Doomerism and Who Is Behind It

Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse

That’s the pitch from Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, who says he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy the world.

It’s a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronoun and promote “Effective Altruism,” that believe all the world’s problems can be solved with technology.

In a bombshell essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei argued that leading AI firms should commit to allowing “embedded third-party evaluators” from a nonprofit called Model Evaluation and Threat Research, or METR, that would maintain “employee-like access” to oversee safety efforts and ensure advanced AI models don’t turn Terminator and wipe out humanity.

The would-be John Connors at METR purport to be fully independent, but the group traces its roots directly back to key figures in Effective Altruism, whose Silicon Valley-based devotees once included disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried, one of Anthropic’s biggest early investors.

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Effective Altruism, a philosophy that’s become popular with Silicon Valley masters of the universe, advocates for using reason — and fortunes amassed by tech’s best and brightest — to do the most good for humanity over the long term.

Fed Raises Rates

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The Federal Reserve rose interest rates for the first time in six years, citing concerns over the inflation rate continuing to exceed 2%. The board voted unanimously to raise rates and signaled more rate increases were coming. President Trump pushed back against the decision, but stopped short of criticizing the Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh. President Trump nominated Warsh for the position he now holds.

‘Stay in our lane’: Warsh vows Fed independence after hiking rates– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Chairman Kevin Warsh drew a bright line between the Federal Reserve and the White House after the central bank raised interest rates in defiance of President Donald Trump.

Warsh, speaking at a press conference in Washington on Wednesday after the rate decision, was asked by the Washington Examiner about whether the decision to proceed with raising rates despite Trump’s lobbying for a rate cut could be seen as a test of the Fed’s independence. Warsh didn’t provide any details about conversations he had with the president.

House Unanimously Votes to Stop Penny Production– www.breitbart.com

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House Unanimously Votes to Stop Penny Production– www.breitbart.com
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The House of Representatives has unanimously voted to pass the Common Cents Act, which would send the United States penny into extinction.

Democrats and Republicans voted together on Monday to block the U.S. Treasury from minting any more one-cent coins, and to require any person or business selling goods or services for cash to round “to the nearest amount divisible by five for the payment or transfer of cash.”

If passed by the Senate as expected, the bill will take effect one year after. Pennies already in circulation will remain legal tender, lawmakers clarified. 

The bill was led in the House by Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

The unanimous vote came after the U.S. Mint stopped making new pennies in November 2025, but the legislation would prevent it from restarting the production of pennies in the future. 

Costs associated with producing each penny have risen to 3.69 cents, far outweighing the value they carry. The Treasury stated in a press release that they could annually save $56 million. 

Man Loses Job and Is Diagnosed With Diabetes, Then HOA Forecloses on His Home Over Less Than $1,000 in Dues — Property Ultimately Sold Back to HOA for $8,172– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Man Loses Job and Is Diagnosed With Diabetes, Then HOA Forecloses on His Home Over Less Than $1,000 in Dues — Property Ultimately Sold Back to HOA for $8,172– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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A man purchased a home for around $475,000. Unfortunately, he lost his job and was diagnosed with diabetes around the same time. This resulted in him falling behind on his HOA payments. Rather than the association helping him come up with a payment plan for the initial $900 he owed, they ultimately forced a foreclosure, then rebought his property for $8,172.

There are so many protections in place for renters. Yet, when homeowners fall on hard times, there seem to be zero resources for them to rely on. Call me crazy, but one might assume that the government loathes property owners, while only representing renters. Why do you think that is?

According to the New York Post:

Toby Newton purchased the four-bedroom Mesa home for $475,000 in 2022, but ran into financial trouble two years later after losing his job and being diagnosed with diabetes, according to the Mesa Tribune.

Newton fell behind on his quarterly HOA assessments, which were around $170, eventually owing $977 in fees and interest.

It is undoubtedly absurd, the kind of mess an incompetent bureaucracy can create.

He initially offered to pay $50 per month toward his debt while keeping up with his regular assessments. After that was rejected, he increased his proposed payments — eventually offering $200 a month — but said the HOA rejected those offers as well.