Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on Oct. 29 on rules that restrict electronics testing to U.S. labs and countries that offer reciprocal recognition, with Chinese labs expected to be hit hardest.

The commission said in a statement Wednesday that it lacks confidence in testing done in economies without a reciprocal framework, where it has seen a pattern of egregious violations. It also said shifting testing abroad has left the equipment-authorization program overconcentrated and harder to oversee.

The statement did not mention China, which handled about 83 percent of FCC certification applications in 2025. China does not grant U.S. testing labs reciprocal recognition.

Before a phone, camera, computer, or any other electronic device can be marketed in the United States, it has to be tested at an FCC-recognized lab. The Oct. 29 order would change which labs can hold that recognition.

"For decades, officials in D.C. looked the other way when foreign nations abused their relationships with America and adopted trade practices that failed to account for basic concepts of reciprocity and fair dealing," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in the statement.

"Those efforts included the offshoring of testing capacity to foreign labs and the gutting of American jobs and domestic industry.

"Flash forward to now and less than 4% of all electronic devices are tested in labs located inside the U.S., and the lion's share are tested in countries that do not operate a reciprocal economy."

If the commission adopts the order at its Oct. 29 open meeting, testing, certification, and accreditation would have to occur in the United States or a reciprocal economy beginning Dec. 1, 2028.

Walmart's systematic pricing violations overcharge shoppers Walmart whistleblower is inside Walmart for ten minutes and finds twenty products where the price per ounce does not match the total https://t.co/XtrZFwJ6sc

— Orwell Day (@OrwellDay) October 9, 2026

by Tyler Durden

Friday's diesel deal between Trump and Putin wasn't only about diesel. It was also about Kyiv.

Hours after Zelensky accused Washington of using Ukraine's negotiators as a "smokescreen" for a backroom deal with Moscow, Axios reported that Trump decided to let Russia sell diesel after Zelensky ignored half a dozen US requests to stop attacking Russian oil refineries. 

The alleged source was a US official with direct knowledge, who did not hold back: "Zelensky is misreading the room. By continuing to hit refineries, he is eroding the good will that he has built with Trump over the last six months."

 In other words, the sanctions waiver was as much a message to Kyiv as a gift to Moscow. 

So how did we get to this latest geopolitical twist,  and what Trump actually got for lifting sanctions (spoiler: less than nine days of fuel), and why is the deal is on a collision course with the one Ukrainian policy.

 Kyiv says it won't give up. Let's dig in.  "Half A Dozen" Requests The backstory is familiar to regular readers. One month ago, Trump - freaking out about soaring diesel prices - told reporters that Zelensky "has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," and a day later he announced a truce that never really happened 

(from zerohedge.com, 14 September 2026): ""Trump says "Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise! The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/ Ukraine War, not Iran."

Claire's Observations:  I am certain that everyone in the US using diesel fuel is grateful for the reprieve in prices, but what happens after this diesel fuel is spent?!?  

It appears that President Trump is "buying time" here, but time for what?!?  

The mid-terms are still supposed to happen on 3 November, 24 days from now, so figuring, with the date-line of the article late yesterday, and counting from today, another 9 days of fuel means it runs out one week from this Sunday, 18 October. 

 What, please, is supposed to happen before then?!?

Were I a betting human being, I would not bet against a huge attack against Iran happening before this time giving Trump the opportunity of "counting coup" against Iran.  

This, however, will NOT get oil flowing before then, and Trump needs to have "a backup plan" on diesel to correspond with the country again running out of fuel by that time.

With Bab Al Mandab and Saudi Arabia both under Houthi attack, I have absolutely zero clue as to what Plan B would be. 

For days, the country has been riveted by the case of death row inmate Christa Pike, who was sentenced to die by lethal injection on September 30 — the first woman in 200 years to be executed in the state of Tennessee. Only Christa didn’t die. For two hours, the team at the prison tried and failed to find a vein, ultimately sending a double dose of the poison into her body, not her bloodstream. The result was catastrophic, but not fatal, and she was rushed to the hospital for “life-saving care,” a shocking twist that’s ignited a global debate about the death penalty. But there’s a much bigger outrage taking place in America than this one botched punishment — and it’s taking countless lives a year.

Pike, who may be the only person in U.S. history to survive two lethal injections, spent several days on a ventilator and woke up Tuesday, extremely confused. Her attorney, Randy Spivey, told CNN, “I was not in the room when she woke up, so I don’t want to speculate too much. Our understanding was the first thing she said was, ‘Where am I and who are you?’” He paused before adding, “There’s still a lot of cognitive confusion, and so I will say that.”

The WEF want everyone to drive only electric cars to 'save the planet'. It seems there will soon be few functioning oil refineries. Pure coincidence?

The code that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon ran on less computing power than your thermostat, and the full source is free to download. I dug through the Apollo Guidance Computer's assembly, found Margaret Hamilton's name and some genuinely funny comments, then ran it in an emulator.

Saudi-funded Al Arabiya is reporting a 'worst fear' scenario on Friday, saying that Houthi militias have planted a large quantity of mines in the Bab al-Mandab area.

The report says further that Saudi-backed teams of engineers are currently engaged in demining operations in the Red Sea strait. It writes:

Engineering teams continue clearing operations and removing mines and improvised explosive devices in Bab al-Mandab.

If confirmed that such mining operations are widespread in Bab al-Mandab, this would constitute yet another major crisis for global energy shipping. At the moment, Saudi-backed fighters are focusing anti-Houthi operations along the Red Sea coast, with Saudi reports suggesting a rapid retaking of the strategic ground.

The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinic is located on the agency's campus in Bethesda, Maryland. It was opened on Oct. 5, officials disclosed on Thursday. Reporters were not invited to the opening.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, recommended in 2025 starting a new vaccine injury research program at the NIH as part of an effort to investigate vaccine injuries with better data collection and analysis.

The clinic is "dedicated to developing the science of preventing vaccine injuries, making vaccines safer, and most important of all, listening to the voices of people who have suffered vaccine injury, so that we can learn from them and learn from their experience to make vaccines safer," Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH's director, said in an Oct. 8 video statement.

NIH doctors and researchers will use the clinic to evaluate patients, identify potential causes of health problems, and try to figure out the best treatments, the Department of Health and Human Services, which Kennedy leads and is the NIH's parent agency, said in a statement.

Some NIH researchers studied patients with alleged or confirmed COVID-19 vaccine injuries during the pandemic, but received pushback from NIH leadership. Patients said they were later abandoned by the researchers.

But the kid who carried the bags at Bushwood stayed mostly quiet for decades about how that picture really got made.

And Michael O’Keefe just described one line in the movie’s budget that Hollywood accountants never meant for anybody to read.

What Danny Noonan Says Was Hiding in the Books

Michael O’Keefe played caddie Danny Noonan in the 1980 comedy, sharing the screen with Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, and Ted Knight.

The 71-year-old actor sat down with Page Six recently, and Fox News picked up what he said. O’Keefe claimed cocaine ran so freely through the production that somebody wrote it right into the movie’s budget.

Webmaster Addition: One production company I worked for did the exact same thing!

The Food Standards Agency said on 23–24 June 2026 that fruit products sold through major supermarkets, including M&S and Tesco, were being recalled because Salmonella was identified in apple and kiwi used in those products. The recall covers specific ready-to-eat fruit packs with defined use-by dates. Stores are displaying point-of-sale notices that explain the risk, list affected items, and advise customers on refunds and customer care contacts.

Retail guidance is clear and simple: do not eat the recalled fruit packs and instead return them to the store for a refund, with no receipt required in most cases. Reports list several named items and date codes, including M&S Pink Lady apple packs with a 24 June 2026 use-by date, which helps shoppers check their fridges quickly. This focus on precise product names and dates limits waste while protecting customers from possible illness.

Military leadership failed to fix flaws with the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly Washington, DC, midair collision last year, an Army report found. 

An American Airlines flight and a US Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport in the nation's capital on January 29, 2025, killing 67 people. 

The tragic incident unfolded when Army Black Hawk pilot Captain Rebecca Lobach was undergoing an annual flight evaluation overseen by her co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd Eaves, and crew member Staff Sergeant Ryan O'Hara.

The jet was American Airlines flight 5342, a CRJ700 Bombardier flying from Wichita, Kansas, carrying 60 passengers, many of whom were part of the US figure skating community, and four crew members.

A previously undisclosed Army report completed in May found that the crash, which was the deadliest commercial aviation accident in the US in almost 25 years, resulted from several systemic failures.

The key factor was two broken radio transmissions that prevented the helicopter crew from receiving critical details from air traffic control.

Webmaster Addition: Remember how they blamed the pilot?

Turkey will not send troops to Saudi Arabia to launch attacks on Yemen under the Mecca defense pact, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday.

"This is not an offensive agreement. Turkey will not send troops to another country's territory to launch an attack there," he said during a live press conference in Ankara. Fidan added that possible Turkish deployments to Saudi Arabia would be only defensive in nature. 

Donald Trump's envoys for Ukraine, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will meet representatives from Kyiv in Miami Friday and try to forge a unified peace proposal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the talks after a day in which a Russian strike on buses in the frontline city of Kramatorsk killed 30 people, one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

'The Ukrainian negotiating team is due to meet Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the US tomorrow,' Zelensky said Thursday. 

'The meeting is expected to last two days. We are also counting on a European team to join our negotiating group.'

by Tyler Durden

Europe is demonstrating that the globalist progressive experiment is crashing and burning, as far-left riots, which we pointed out at the start of the week, were "spreading like cancer" from France to Belgium, continue on Friday. What's to say the social unrest will stop there?

he chaos and social unrest mimic the US Marxist BLM riots in 2020, when left-wing NGOs and politicians allowed these radicals to mobilize and burn down city blocks. What's happening in Europe could've happened in the US this year if the State Department, Treasury, and other agencies hadn't cracked down on these far-left NGOs, big family foundations, and foreign subversion networks.

Social media user Visegrád 24 has pointed out that riots in Europe are taking a disastrous turn: "Young second and third-generation migrants have joined forces with Antifa for today's riots in Brussels."

That's the second issue: far-left groups weaponize migrants to fulfill their sinister goal of overthrowing capitalism and the West, similar to what far-left radicals in the US, such as the Democratic Socialists of America, have in mind when they say, in their own words, that they want to "bring down America from within."

Claire's Observations:  It will be interesting to see how France and Belgium ultimately deal with this, as they are both members of the EU, but the EU, at this point, has no standing army. 

 I have seen no evidence of national guard or any other groups of that type being deployed to these countries at this point, and wonder when that might come into effect.

There is only so long these riots can be allowed to continue, before the very fabric of society gets absolutely ripped apart; I just hope and pray no one else gets seriously hurt.

The reality that many still refuse to believe! https://t.co/d0Vw1LDckC

— Rania (@umyaznemo) October 8, 2026

NASA announced that the Crew-12 astronauts closed the Dragon hatch early Wednesday and targeted an autonomous undock at 8:05 a.m. Eastern time, with splashdown planned for late Thursday morning off the California coast, pending weather. The agency laid out the schedule in public updates and a mission advisory to guide live coverage and recovery teams. The step-by-step plan reflects a routine commercial crew return profile that NASA and SpaceX have repeated across missions since operational flights began.

NASA identified the four returning crew members by name and role. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway serve as commander and pilot for the Dragon spacecraft. European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev round out the team. The foursome has lived and worked on the International Space Station since mid-February, handing off duties to incoming crew before packing experiments and gear for the trip home.

Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, has launched multiple attacks on airports in Saudi Arabia in recent days, marking an escalation of the conflict, which was reignited by Saudi airstrikes on the Sanaa International Airport back in July.

The ramped-up Ansar Allah strikes on airports came after the group warned on October 5 that Saudi airspace would no longer be safe for civilian aircraft.

On Thursday, Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree announced a ballistic missile attack on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Later in the day, he announced a cruise missile strike on the same airport and said that Najran Airport and an airbase in Khamis Mushait were also targeted.