Starlink to Build Mobile Phone Network
October 9th, 2026Via: Basenor:
SpaceX has struck a deal to acquire a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, a move Elon Musk is calling the ‘last critical piece’ needed for Starlink Mobile to provide complete phone coverage across America. The announcement, made public on October 8, 2026, sent shares of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile tumbling roughly 7% in after-hours trading as investors absorbed the implications of a satellite-native carrier entering the U.S. mobile market with the frequencies required to punch signals through building walls.
The deal pairs with the FCC’s approval just two days earlier of Starlink’s Gen2 constellation, authorizing up to 15,000 next-generation satellites. Together, the two developments transform Starlink Mobile from a text-only emergency backup into a credible competitive threat to the entrenched U.S. carrier trio.
The Federal Government Ran Up a $2 Trillion Deficit in 2026
October 8th, 2026Via: Reason:
Fiscal year 2026 ended last week, and while official figures aren’t out yet, it looks like the federal government spent $2 trillion more than it took in. That’s not quite a record—in dollar terms, the federal government ran a bigger deficit in 2020 when the feds showered money on the country in hopes of offsetting COVID-19 lockdowns (fueling inflation in the process), and the deficit was a bigger share of GDP both that year and during the Great Recession. But given the federal government hasn’t balanced its books in 25 years, a $2 trillion deficit adds to already staggering national debt and looming disaster.
Ottumwa, Iowa: Satanic Prayer at City Council Meeting
October 8th, 2026HOLY SH*T
@City_of_Ottumwa in Iowa opened up their most recent city council meeting with a prayer to SATAN.
"Let us pray. Dear dark father… HAIL SATAN"
WTF is wrong with these people??? https://t.co/Ge92TpnLG6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2026
Via: Ottumwa Courier:
An invocation at the beginning of Tuesday’s Ottumwa City Council meeting overshadowed everything else that took place over the course of 80 minutes.
Resident and former council member Matt Dalbey read a satanic prayer — capped off by “Hail Satan” — to kick off the meeting at City Hall, leading to a reaction from New Life Center pastor Rick Bick during a contentious opening few minutes of the meeting.
Russia: Plague?
October 8th, 2026Questions, questions…
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Ex-CIA Official Found with Gold Bars Admits to Sprawling Scheme, Agrees to Forfeit $194 Million
October 6th, 2026If the tens of thousands of posts on Cryptogon had metrics for weirdness, this would easily be far out in 3 sigma territory.
At a minimum, this demonstrates that there is an existing infrastructure for CIA to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars of black budget money into real estate, gold bars and other valuables using contractors inside the United States.
David Rush obviously did these types of things as a matter of routine as part of his day job and, apparently, decided to off the reservation a bit.
Apparently.
Who knows…
Via: CBS:
Ex-CIA official found with gold bars admits to sprawling scheme, agrees to forfeit $194 million
By Stefan Becket, Caitlin Yilek
Updated on: October 6, 2026 / 3:25 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A former CIA official who was found with $40 million in gold bars in his home in May pleaded guilty on Tuesday, admitting he invented fake classified programs to divert nearly $200 million in government money that he used to buy Florida mansions and gold.
David Rush entered a guilty plea on a single count of wire fraud during a hearing in federal court in Virginia.
As part of his plea agreement, Rush agreed to forfeit at least $194 million, including 298 gold bars, two BMWs, 35 luxury watches and four luxury homes in Florida. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
In a filing known as a criminal information detailing the allegations Rush admitted to, prosecutors said he invented a fake classified program to steer $145 million in government funds through a front company, using the money to purchase the homes in Florida that he intended to resell for profit. Separately, he “fabricated a separate purported sensitive government activity to justify the acquisition of gold bars,” prosecutors said.
“Although the real estate and gold acquisitions involved different transactions and intermediaries, they were executions of the same overarching scheme — RUSH created false classified authorities, directed and approved the associated expenditures, caused contractors and subcontractors to carry out the transactions, and thereafter exercised possession or control over the acquired assets,” the filing said.
Prosecutors said Rush had access to “highly sensitive and classified government programs,” although the filing does not name the CIA as his former employer. The spy agency and FBI said previously that the investigation began when the CIA referred the matter to the bureau. In the affidavit supporting the original criminal complaint against him, he was described as a “former Senior Executive Service level employee” at a government agency in eastern Virginia.
The document said Rush caused an unidentified contractor known as Company 1 to transfer about $145 million to a holding company set up at his direction. He then instructed employees at that company and a subcontractor to route that money to a holding company that he controlled, and used the funds to purchase four properties in Palm Beach and Hobe Sound, Florida.
Rush was arrested in May. FBI agents found the gold bars, $2 million in cash and luxury watches when executing a search warrant at his home. Prosecutors said Tuesday that the holding company had about $38.6 million left in its account.
The gold bars were purchased after Rush told the unnamed contractors “that he was working on a Top-Secret project in which he had to deliver high-value commodities to unnamed individuals,” the information said. One of the contractors wired $45 million to the holding company in January, a transaction that forms the basis of the wire fraud charge.
Rush was originally charged with one count of stealing public money, with investigators saying he had provided false information about his education and military service on his government application, and fraudulently took military leave after his service ended.
In June, a federal judge ordered Rush to remain in custody as the case proceeded, determining that he posed a severe flight risk.
At his detention hearing, government lawyers called Rush a “master manipulator” who lied to his neighbors about being a pilot, lied to his co-workers and leveraged his “access to seniority.” A Justice Department lawyer said Rush “cannot be trusted” and is “fully willing and able to skirt the rules.”
Trump Allows Farm Diesel for Vehicles Used on Public Roads
October 6th, 2026Via: CNBC:
President Donald Trump has allowed the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel, typically reserved for farm operations, to be used more broadly in an attempt to bring down record-high fuel costs.
Trump signed an executive order Monday evening stateside to temporarily allow truckers and farmers to use red-dyed diesel — which is exempt from highway fuel taxes — and deferred related taxes on the fuel through the end of this year.
The tax-free diesel is typically used by farm equipment, construction machinery, trucks and other off-road vehicles. It is therefore exempt from a 24.4-cent-per-gallon tax applied to diesel fuel sold for highway transportation.
Using dyed diesel in vehicles operated on public roads is considered illegal, and could result in fines for tax evasion. But several states this year have relaxed restrictions on the tax-exempt diesel to help Americans cope with surging fuel prices.
British Whistleblower Who Revealed Howard Lutnick’s Links to Jeffrey Epstein Found Hanged in Thailand
October 6th, 2026It’s so much worse than anyone knows, especially the 9/11 stuff. Will be covering new findings on that front in my next investigation with @markgoodw_in , out later this month.
For now, all I can say is, you don’t hate Lutnick enough.— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) October 5, 2026
Via: Daily Mail:
A British banker who revealed links between Jeffrey Epstein and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick died from hanging in Thailand, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Simon Andriesz was found dead in a town just outside Bangkok on the morning of September 23.
The whistleblower had claimed his former employer Mr Lutnick – a key aide of Donald Trump – failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier.
The banker uncovered emails from 2018 which he claimed showed Mr Lutnick and Epstein were discussing a start-up business in which they had involvement.
Epstein died in prison one year later. The messages were exchanged a decade after the sex offender was convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a child.
Khlong Luang Town’s municipality office recorded the death of the 57-year-old Briton, who had worked on Wall Street but was recently living in Cornwall. His cause of death listed as ‘asphyxiation from hanging’.
BofA’s Urgent Warning to All Clients
October 5th, 2026Via: Steven Van Metre:
Russia: Plague?
October 5th, 2026Israel has already developed an experimental mRNA PLAGUE vaccine.
I will NOT be taking it.
I’d rather take my chances with doxycycline and its 97% SURVIVAL RATE. https://t.co/UK4ErTyaTJ
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) October 6, 2026
Via: CNBC:
Nearly 200 people have been placed under medical observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia over suspected exposure to plague, according to local media reports.
The report said 189 people were being monitored following the illness of an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Irkutsk. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the nearby Republic of Buryatia, said the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.
Russia’s public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said Sunday that the employee had been diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology” and that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region and the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov remained stable.
The agency said expanded testing had not detected microorganisms linked to the employee’s work.
Pentagon Wants On Demand Solar Power from Orbit
October 5th, 2026Via: Interesting Engineering:
A solar power startup has received backing from US authorities to design, build, and test a homing beacon that will enable its space-based solar energy system accurately beam power from orbit to receiving solar arrays on Earth.
Overview Energy secured the contract through the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF). The company announced the project on Wednesday, September 30.
The technology will allow the firm’s satellites to identify and authenticate receiver sites on the ground. Once a site is confirmed, the satellites could lock onto it and precisely beam energy from orbit to Earth. That said, satellites in geosynchronous orbit could receive sunlight around the clock.
The proposed satellites would collect sunlight in space and convert the captured energy into near-infrared light. The safe, invisible beam would then be directed toward existing and future utility-scale solar facilities on Earth.
