Fortress America, Energy Shocks, and the Push for Resilience on CapitalCosm

Chris appears on CapitalCosm to discuss Fortress America, international prep warnings, the Iran conflict and oil markets, grid risks, and the growing case for personal resilience amid systemic stress.

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CRIB 10/30/26: Refineries Under Attack; War Drums Are Beating; AI Hacks Gone Wild!; Commodities Under Attack; Grab Bag

If truth is the first casualty of war, then what stage is completely inverting reality itself? Because, that's the stage we're in...

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The AI Bubble Is Hitting the Credit Wall

Once again the markets are behaving as if there wasn't a concern in the world. Which is why we scour the edges for clues.

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Protesters Use Violent Rhetoric on College Campuses Ahead of Midterms, Property Taxes Up 31% in 6 Years

Today's Digest covers campus protests, claims of election theft, Israel embargo, property taxes, Bitcoin fork, Lagarde exit, European decline, French speech bill, Israeli vote, AI grading, Queer Science, gas prices, and a ChatGPT lawsuit.

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Prepare Now! Because That’s What The Pentagon Is Doing.

Why are so many Western nations suddenly telling their citizens to stock up on food, water and other basic supplies? What threats are they responding to? This is a truly bizarre signal we shouldn't ignore.

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Netanyahu Holds On After Majority Loss, Hep-B Vaccine Trial Scrapped, Ontario Digital ID Rolls Out

Today's Digest covers Israel vote, US-Iran attack plans, refinery strikes, Russian & Saudi oil shifts, rising fuel costs, teachers' union call for violence, canceled Hep B trial, forever chemicals, digital IDs, and Internet access preparedness.

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IEA Sees No Credible Path Back to Pre-War Energy Markets, Paper Details Forms of mRNA Shedding

Today's Digest covers energy markets, Iran's reopening offer, UK warnings of Russian threats, mRNA shedding, FISA withholding, Microsoft buyouts, an AI-flawed court ruling, recruiting immigrant teachers, UK educational outcomes for whites, and advice to start prepping.

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CRIB 10-26-26: The IDF Turns On Bibi; Mostly Peaceful Bombings; The Pentagon Preps!; AI Hacks Everything; & Grab Bag

If it isn't one thing it's another. We all know that the Iran and Russian wars are going to tank the global economy, but beating that to the punch might be rogue AI agents breaking the grid or something. Sheesh. I need a break!

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Pentagon Prepares All US Bases to Survive 90 Days Without Support, Mecca Pact Officials to Meet with Iran

Today's Digest covers military and UK preparedness, Iran meeting with Mecca pact officials, Samsung TV and Google privacy concerns, US student loans, mail-in ballots, gold markets, BC Conservatives, mold illness, and infant nutrition.

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US-Japan Crude Shipping Surges to 9x Costlier, Home Insurance Exceeds Property Taxes in 2/3 of Counties

Today's Digest covers crude shipping costs, home ownership costs and sales, Kushner allegations, Netanyahu's West Bank raids, Houthi claims on Saudi targets, helium, news aggregator bias, social-media quotas, mummy removals, Shingrix efficacy, and UC math failures.

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Bonds Rally Again, Oil Tops $100, Metals Get Slammed, and Paper Palladium Continues to Explode

Bonds rallied again as yields fell and TLT gained, while crude oil closed above $100. Gold and silver declined sharply, but paper palladium open interest continued to surge dramatically amid the price drop.

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Rogue AIs Log into Bank Accounts, Major News Outlets Use Fake Polls, and AIPAC Feels the Heat

Today's Digest covers AI bank agents, data centers, oil production, heating reserves, a futures probe, Hormuz food pressures, fake polls, AIPAC shifts, ballot and citizenship issues, Ukraine-Iran geopolitics, Means resignation, and Google's Finland tree-clearing.

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Episode #28 of The Wake-Up Call: Alert – It Looks Like War Again This Weekend

The Middle East is threatening to erupt again. If this weekend brings a resumption of major attacks, the conflict could escalate to another level on several fronts. Pay very close attention.

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CRIB 10/23/26: Expect Trouble This Weekend; Energy News; Economic Update; Tracking the AI Bubble; and Grab Bag

It looks like the Iran war is about to get put back on the front burner. If it does, and Iran responds as promised, then energy prices are going to spike and global shortages will arise...leading to all sorts of economic misery.

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Good News Friday: UK Hospitals Place Patients by Biological Sex, Trump Rewards Fraud Whistleblowers

Today's Digest covers UK hospital sex wards, phone radiation testing, olive oil benefits, nature and eating, fraud whistleblower incentives, Medicaid fraud crackdown, GRANITE Act, NJ handgun permit delays, X foreign bot removals, and fusion research.

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Stocks, Bonds and Commodities Are Sending (Very) Mixed Signals

All sorts of odd market behaviors are starting to spring up. Oil priced a year from now is moving sharply higher (indicating more inflation is on the way), pending home sales have collapsed to 25+ year lows, and the price of gold has broken away from the amount of gold held in GLD (et al). Creak! Pop!

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Children’s Hospital Gives Flu Shots to Kids While Under Anesthesia, Roblox Promotes Immigration to Kids

Today's Digest covers flu shots for kids under anesthesia, BBC immigration game, Irish consent ad, AI bubble, rare earths, US rapper, Texas mailers, geothermal, Chinese spy cars, and Trump on Iran.

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US Signals End of Security-for-Dollars Oil Deal, French 10Y Hits 24-Year High, Japan Power +25% This Week

Today's Digest covers U.S. no longer security guarantor, UK jets for Saudi, French bond yields, U.S. home sales dropping, high car payments, energy spikes, diesel relief, Shaw firing-squad case, midterm polls on Iran, WNBA ruling, and Alberta autonomy vote.

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France Imposes Curfews as Police Lose Control, Musk Adds SpaceX Shares to Kids’ Trump Accounts

Today's Digest covers French riots, vaccine injuries, Musk's SpaceX shares for kids, Trump's conditional midterm pledge, German energy firms shutting down, a US AI hub, and a denied Iran strike.

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CRIB 10-19-26: Riots Spread to Eight Countries; Middle East News Lockdown; Russia & Ukraine Striking Hard; & Errata

The economy runs on energy. Starve the world of energy, and the economy begins to shrink. That makes people jittery, and when they get nervous enough they act out. Welcome to the second-order effects of TrumpBibi's war of choice against Iran.

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Saudi Arabia Faces 7-10-Year Rebuild, Putin Proposes Trump Summit to End Ukraine War

Today's Digest covers Saudi oil strain, Europe's gas storage, Putin-Trump-Xi Ukraine talks, Egypt-Saudi moves, Netanyahu endorsement, withheld Minab bombing report, AI selloffs, drywall robots, UK foreign jobs, EU housing strains, data-center illnesses, and manifestation claims.

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Rioters Burn 1883 French Landmark, RFK Burns MAHA Base with Measles Comment, 1 in 4 Gen-Z’s Depressed

Today's Digest covers French protests and migration, Nord Stream trial, Egypt-Saudi aid, US immigration rulings and polls, UBS capital rules, forcing streamers to subsidize the BBC, EU coal gains, and RFK's measles comments.

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High CPI/PPI Inflation – Bonds Rally, Metals Decline, and Equities See Risk-Off Moves

High CPI (+0.65% m/m) and PPI (+0.96% m/m) prints, fueled by energy, coincided with a bond rally (TLT +2.65%), metals declines, and risk-off equity moves as tech and small caps sold off.

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Oil Futures Hit $110, Qatar’s Gov’t Revenues Fall 42%, and US Exceeds $1 Trillion in Interest for the First Time

Today's Digest covers oil price spikes, Qatar gov't revenue declines from LNG damage, record US deficits and interest payments, BlackRock record assets under management, supply-shock vs demand-pull inflation, and risk of food crisis.

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Hormuz Under Fire: Saudi Refineries, Shipping Chaos, and the Energy-Food Squeeze with Nawfal and Davis

Chris appears on Mario Nawfal and Lt. Col. Daniel Davis’s shows to break down the intensifying attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure, rising shipping chaos in the Strait of Hormuz, and the growing risks to global energy and food supplies.

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When America Collapses, It Won’t Be an Accident

Is the United States actually under attack at this point in time? I think it is.

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The Critical Research & Intelligence Briefing (CRIB): Oil Shortages Worsen, CCC Bonds Tanking, and the AI Bubble Is in Trouble.

I've renamed this report...but it's the same as ever - the data and insights I've gleaned from the week to give you an edge and a proper grounding in what's actually happening so you can make decisions.

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Good News Friday: Armed Civilian Stops Campus Shooter, Bill Protects Parents Affirming Biological Sex

Today's Digest covers Oregon shooting bystander, transgender sports protest, child protection bill, health enrollment cleanup, CA noncitizen voters, socialism poll, LED headlight rules, scratch meals, incandescent bulbs, bison herd resurgence.

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Inflation Is Running Hot and AI Is Beginning to Crack

Creak! Pop! The warnings are coming in fast and furious now.

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Mortgage Apps Fall to 1995 Levels, AI Buys Your Work Conversations, and a French Warning to Americans

Today's Digest covers mortgage applications drop, AI training on workplace conversations, French warning against Democrat policies, Omar denaturalization, media ban injunction, Hormuz oil attacks, coal prices, Taiwan Alaska LNG, Oxford Newspeak, and plague lockdowns.

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Tucker Carlson: “I’m starting to think that maybe this is by design”

Eventually, you have to accept that the actions of leaders are exactly what they seem to be. Which means the intent behind blowing up refineries and destroying fertilizer production is to cause economic destruction and human misery.

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US Networks Nukes with AI, Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Depot, Paul Tudor Jones Shorts All of 2027

Today's Digest covers AI nuclear risks, Ukraine and Greenland energy moves, Iran and Houthi geopolitics, equity supply and bank penalties, political speech cases, COVID study flaws, and surveillance legislation.

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Most Vessels in One Day Struck by Iran, Rogue AI Models May Enter Your TVs and Fridges

Today’s Digest covers Iran’s record Hormuz strikes and multi-day Riyadh attacks, AI self-replication risks and Office clones, Getty’s bankruptcy and Netflix cuts, Omar’s raid, German child marriages and French refrigeration hacks, and US education declines.

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$154 Physical Crude, mRNA Trial Flaws, and the Energy Ceasefire That Wasn’t

Today's Digest covers Trump's supposed energy ceasefire, physical oil prices, Hormuz and Houthi strikes, mRNA vaccine trial issues, the Russian lab death, an AI false police tip, a UK social media ban, and a campus socialism survey.

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More Euro Confetti as Bonds and Metals Bounce, but Equities Show Risk-Off Sector Rotation

Euro keeps turning into confetti as the dollar rises. Bonds and metals bounced after recent lows, yet equities showed clear risk-off sector rotation, with utilities and staples leading while tech and homebuilders lagged.

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Trump Licenses Russian Diesel, AI Execs War-Game Societal Disruptions, SpaceX Acquires Mobile Spectrum

Today's Digest covers Russian diesel licenses and Ukraine strikes, AI shutdown scenarios and copyright fights, SpaceX spectrum deals and Oracle delays, federal fraud estimates and California hate-speech rules.

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Dana Samuelson: Surviving The Great Debasement

Markets are being bullied. Dana Samuelson has 45 years of front-line experience, and he agrees: manipulation (shenanigans) abound. This creates both aggravation and opportunities for the alert investor.

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The Fat Pipe Oct. 9th, 2026: Wars Update,

If you're reading mainstream media, you might think the war on global fuel supplies was winding down...it's not. This was a pretty intense week of attacks.

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Good News Friday: NIH Opens Vaccine Injury Clinic, Judge Rejects Flock Surveillance, and USS Lincoln Returns

Today's Digest covers a vaccine-injury clinic and VAERS changes, hospital price warnings, Flock camera rulings and bans, keyword search warrants, blocked payments to the deceased, birth-tourism prosecutions, illegal-immigrant tuition suits, and the Lincoln's return.

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Episode #27 of The Wake-Up Call: It’s Intentional

If somebody keeps doing something over and over again that threatens you, at some point you have to just accept that maybe that’s their intent. Whoever “they” are, it’s very clear that they are purposely creating a food and fuel emergency.

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When the Manipulations Finally Fail … Look Out Below

It's just a matter of time....something is going to give.

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Nurse Alleges 400% Stillbirth Increase After COVID Jabs, Whoever Controls AI Could Control a Country

Today's Digest covers AI superintelligence and consciousness, ballot chatbots, stillbirth vaccine claims, COVID mandate cases, activating the Mecca pact, US-Iran strike plans, oil bypasses, Trump Accounts, SNAP fraud, and Catholic hospitals.

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No Accountability for 9/11 Paved the Way for the Draconian COVID Responses

The failure to properly investigate, and prosecute, 9/11 allowed the powers that be to feel invincible. Because no accountability was administered, and therefore no lessons were learned, we were later clubbed over the head with COVID. Let's not make that terror again.

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Statins Don’t Reduce Deaths & COVID Jab Tied to Autism – Universities Ban Phrase ‘Ethnic Minority’

Today's Digest covers ineffective statins, Moderna’s placebo-free trial, a COVID-shot autism link, cultural displacement and migrant landings, Houthi attacks, Saudi troop plans, nuclear warnings, Aramco price cuts, Gen Z socialism, and an xAI court win.

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The Fat Pipe 10/5/26: Iran and Houthis Attack, Bonds!, the AI Bubble, and Grab Bag

The energy crisis continues...bonds are entering the crisis-contagion stage...it's impossible to imagine this is all due to mere incompetence. Here's all the news you need to navigate the week ahead.

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Weak Payrolls and a Big Dollar Rally: Long Rates Rise as Short Rates, Metals, and the Dow Fall

Weak payrolls and a big dollar rally framed the week: long rates rose as short rates, metals, and the Dow fell. Bank credit contracted, the Euro made a 16-month low, and TLT set another low.

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China Halts Fuel Exports as G7 Adds to Record Drawdown, Putin Threatens Nukes if NATO Attacks Kaliningrad

Today's Digest covers China's Iranian oil cutoff, China's fuel export halt and G7 reserve release, Russia-NATO and Middle East tensions, French protests, V-safe reports, subprime auto bonds, Flock cameras of unknown origin, and U.S. flooding.

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The Fat Pipe Oct 2, 2026: Iran – Who Knows?, Worst PsyOp Ever?, France On Fire, Bonds Turn Disorderly, Health & Grab Bag

Things must be serious, because the lies are thick and heavy. But I'm here to help you cut through the noise...

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Good News Friday: FL Sues Pfizer Over COVID Jabs, Gold Bug to Counsel Bessent, and US Closes Iraq Bases

Today's Digest covers FL's Pfizer suit, teen mental health, Shelton at Treasury, Title IX rollback, voter checks, CBP donations, degree limits on gov't contracts, blocked kids' online safety bill, Iraq base exit, and Ceuta protests.

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What Lurks Beneath the Surface?

While the headline stock indexes are showing remarkable resilience, beneath the surface the waters are anything but calm...

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No Short-Term Fix to Diesel as Trucking Companies File Bankruptcy – Cleric Demands US Reparations in Iraq

Today's Digest covers Russia's diesel ban, Hormuz attacks and bypass plans, trucking bankruptcies, Korea's gold buy, Iraq's U.S. exit, AI in banking and medicine, the insider-trading bill, and midterm interference.

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