Among the records was a 2018 email exchange in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed a startup in which both men had an interest...
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Bolsonaro Leads As Brazil Election Heads Toward Runoff; Traders Brace For Monday Volatility
"Assuming no new scandals, always possible, and Bolsonaro is set to win the runoff, I think local assets can continue to rally into the second round."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brazil-votes-tight-presidential-election-south-americas-future-line
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Evacuations Underway After Massive Wildfire Breaks Out in Los Angeles Amid Blistering October Heat Wave (VIDEO)
(This means hole hillsides can slide down into flooded streets when the massive El Nino rainstorms come one after another. In 1862 California had a flood that shut down the state for 6 weeks from Sacramento to Orange county.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7unI3KVVHlw&t=13s&pp=0gcJCS0MAYcqIYzv
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/here-we-go-evacuations-underway-after-massive-wildfire/
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Why buy stocks for 1.07% when high-quality bonds pay 6%?
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FBI arrests Chinese female spy at LA airport as she tried to escape. She posed as real estate agent in Irvine while spying. Thousands of Chinese sleeper agents live in U.S.
A California realtor has been arrested at LAX after being accused of spying for China.
Wanying Zhang, also known as “Heather,” was busted at the airport Sunday as she tried to board a flight to Shanghai.
The 34-year-old, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, is accused of working with handlers from the People’s Republic of China to surveil the son of Taiwan’s president Ching-Te Lai.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/california-realtor-34-busted-lax-233444145.html
‘If the PRC [People’s Republic of China] wish to obtain leverage over the President of Taiwan during any potential conflict, the location and pictures of the close relatives of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official, including pictures of their homes and cars, could be useful to the PRC,’ Special Agent Kevin Holt wrote in an October 3 criminal complaint.
China has long maintained that it has control over Taiwan, which asserts its independence.
Law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News the target was Ting-Yu Lai, the son of Taiwanese President Ching-Te Lai.
Ting-Yu, an engineer in his 30s, attended college in the United States and has an American-born son with his wife, Hsiao Chen. He now works for multinational electronics company Philips.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fbi-arrests-chinese-female-spy-at-la-airport-as-she-tried-to-escape-she-posed-as-real-estate-agent-in-irvine-while-spying-thousands-of-chinese-sleeper-agents-live-in-u-s/
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40% of the Natural Gas going to the Southwest just STOPPED….. Major Pipeline FAILURE
Canada’s plan to balance the budget: change the definition of ‘spending’
Britain fixes its failed government energy company with a second one
Before the 2024 election, Britain’s Labour Party promised that a new state-owned company called Great British Energy would help families save up to £300 a year on their energy bills.
So far electric bills have increased instead.
Not to worry. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced his fix: create a SECOND state-owned energy company to basically do the same job as the first.
After all, when one state-owned enterprise fails miserably, the only logical solution is to create a second state-owned enterprise and expect a different result.
Canada’s plan to balance the budget: change the definition of ‘spending’
We’ve long said that when the deficit and inflation numbers become bad enough, politicians will simply reinvent the way they calculate these figures.
Canada has now done just that.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to balance Canada’s gruesome budget deficit. But his plan is to change the definition of the word ‘spending’.
Carney’s big idea is to only count day-to-day operating costs as ‘spending’. And anything else that he deems to be an ‘investment’ won’t count.
We all understand the difference. In your own household, the electric bill is considered an expense. Purchasing shares of Newmont Mining is considered an investment.
Now, my wife has tried to stretch this definition a time or two by insisting that a beach vacation or pretty necklace is actually an investment.
Carney is applying this same logic to an entire national economy. It’s completely subjective and inconsistent, plus it lacks any transparency.
Giving money away on woke priorities? Not an expense! It’s an investment in community! Paying Canadians to turn in their completely legal firearms? Not an expense! It’s an investment in safety! (more on this below)
Carney has now reinvented the math, making Canada look just as ridiculous as WeWork when then CEO Adam Neumanm spoke of his company’s “Community-Adjusted Earnings”.
Canada’s last line of defense is the gun owners it’s disarming
Mark Carney isn’t done with his insanity. He recently told the New York Times that it’s his job to look at the “extreme tail risk” that Donald Trump orders military action against Canada.
According to Carney himself, in the absurd likelihood of a US invasion, US forces would overrun Canada’s defenses within a week, possibly within two days. After that, Carney will be counting on “small groups of irregular military or armed civilians” to fight on with ambushes and sabotage, like the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviets.
The trouble is that Canada has banned more than 2,500 makes and models of “assault-style” firearms since 2020, and the government is paying gun owners to hand them in.
So apparently Canadians are expected to fight house to house with hockey sticks… until the government comes for those too.
Boston paid $335,000 to call itself racist… and failed
If any place in America can say it made the right call on slavery early in its history, it’s Massachusetts. The state’s chief justice declared slavery finished in 1783; he cited the state constitution that “all men are born free and equal.”
Yet the city government in Boston has still chosen to put itself on trial more than two centuries later.
In 2022 local politicians set up a task force to study reparations for slavery, with one member positively giddy that the research would give it the “evidentiary pool from which to argue for [reparations].”
So the city spent $335,000 of taxpayer money to hire a Tufts University team led by historian Kerri Greenidge.
She came with all the right awards. Her 2022 book The Grimkes, about a slaveholding family that produced two famous abolitionist sisters, had been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a prize from the American Historical Association.
Apparently if you write about slavery, no one bothers to check whether it’s accurate. They just give you awards.
But it turns out Greenidge’s book was “riddled with factual errors.” It cites letters held at the University of Michigan which don’t actually exist. It references other historians’ research that doesn’t exist. In short, it’s about as accurate as a Hollywood adaptation.
Ms. Greenidge naturally clapped back and claimed that pointing out her errors is an “attack on Black women [in] academics…”
So, Boston was willing to spend taxpayer money to call its own taxpayers racists, and the expert they hired turned out to be another race grifter with no credibility.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/canadas-plan-to-balance-the-budget-change-the-definition-of-spending/
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Rain kills two near Barcelona. A third person is missing.
Heavy rain hit Catalonia from Saturday night into Sunday.
Two people are dead. One is missing.
A wall fell at a campsite in Tordera and killed a man.
Another person drowned in a flooded garage in Montornès del Vallès.
Crews are still looking for a person swept away in Pineda de Mar.
Some spots got more than 8 inches of rain. One gauge hit 190.8 liters per square meter.
The Raval logged 3.4 liters in one minute.
The Besòs river hit 520 cubic meters a second.
Homes flooded. Cars sat under water. Trains stopped. Flights slipped.
A 102 year old woman died Saturday in Castilla-La Mancha from the same storm belt.
Officials had warned of a “mini hurricane.” It did not form. The flood still did.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/two-dead-flooding-spains-catalonia-region-2026-10-04/
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/04/two-people-have-died-in-catalonia-as-the-region-is-hit-by-torrential-rain-and-flooding
(THERE IS A REASON FOR ALL THIS RAIN ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE SUN HAS BEEN SENDING
MEGATONS OF ENERGY OUR WAY WHICH ENERGIZES THESE STORMS PLUS THOSE EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.)
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/rain-kills-two-near-barcelona-a-third-person-is-missing/
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