Jane Street Sued For Crypto Insider Trading That Accelerated Terraform Collapse For years – literally – we have been pounding the table and pointing out market rigging and manipulation irregularities in the crypto markets which, for reasons of our own, we attributed to one of the world’s foremost HFT shops and most profitable “market makers” in the world (if not India), Jane Street. Below is an example from 2023, and here are […]

Is Privacy Entirely Gone? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), If you watch any movie from the 1940s in the film noir genre, you will see a recurring theme. Someone does something bad but runs away to another state. He might put on a disguise. People try to find him but cannot. He checks in and out of hotels under an assumed name. The heroic detective works to put together clues to connect the dots. […]

Who Believes In Aliens, Bigfoot, & The Chupacabra? Belief in the unknown, whether extraterrestrials or legendary creatures, remains surprisingly common in America. The visualization below, created by Visual Capitalist’s Julie Peasley using data from YouGov, explores how likely U.S. adults think it is that aliens, Bigfoot, and the chupacabra exist. Here’s how Americans responded when asked how likely each being exists, […]

Necessary Evil: RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Glyphosate Order Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Feb. 22 said that glyphosate is poisonous but necessary as he backed President Donald Trump’s recent order designating the production of the herbicide as critical to national security. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) speaks at the White House on Jan. 29, […]

Rogue AI Just Yeeted $250,000 Into the Void Solana’s memecoin casino has seen its fair share of rug pulls, pump-and-dumps, and surrealist performance art. But this weekend, it got something new: an AI agent that appears to have fumbled a quarter-million dollars in tokens while trying to tip a stranger 4 SOL. The agent, dubbed Lobstar Wilde, was built by Nik Pash – an OpenAI employee and former head of AI at the coding agent […]

West Virginia Introduces Bill To Sell Machine Guns To American Citizens Submitted by Gun Owners of America, State Legislators in West Virginia have just introduced a bill, authored by Gun Owners of America, that would authorize the State to sell machineguns to citizens. Currently, newly manufactured machineguns are banned for civilian ownership thanks to an amendment slipped into the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act. Known as […]

The DNC Covered Up Its 2024 Election Autopsy, And Now We Know Why After the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic National Committee conducted an autopsy of the party’s defeat and intended to release it. It pledged an honest accounting of how Donald Trump reclaimed the White House. It assured its own officials, strategists, and donor class that a thorough post-mortem was coming. However, after the autopsy was complete, […]

Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), School officials ordered two eastern Pennsylvania schools into lockdown on Feb. 20, while dozens of students left the schools and became unruly. The move came after officials directed the students to cancel their planned protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. […]

AI Beats Human Research Teams At Crunching Medical Data Whether you think AI is on the cusp of replacing millions of jobs, or an overblown Google search designed to agree with you, one thing is sure: people whose job it is to analyze complex medical data might want to pay attention… For years, biomedical research has had a problem: too much data, not enough people who know how to wrangle it – or simply that it took months to […]

President Trump ‘Curious’ Why Iran Hasn’t ‘Capitulated’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday that President Trump was “curious” that Iran hasn’t “capitulated” to US demands due to the major US military buildup in the Middle East and threats of war. “I don’t want to use the word frustrated because [Trump] understands he has plenty of alternatives, […]

US Dominates Global Data Center Population Data centers power everything from streaming and cloud storage to the AI systems reshaping industries. When it comes to scale, one country stands far ahead. The U.S. has 3,960 data centers in this dataset – more than the next 14 countries combined. The map below, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, based on data from Data Center Map, counts operational facilities by country, from […]

What The FBI Is Investigating In Criminal Probe Of 2020 Election Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), After the election offices of Georgia’s most populous county were raided last month, the FBI has disclosed information indicating where its investigation is heading. FBI agents are seen at the facility in Union City, Ga., on Jan. 28, 2026. Federal laws may have been broken during the 2020 election […]

US Begins Evacuating Some Personnel From Beirut Embassy As Iran War Looms When it comes to the Middle East and rising tensions, the most watched US diplomatic compound in the whole region is the American embassy in Beirut. When things get hot, or America is at war, the threat level is always raised here first – given also that it has in the past been attacked, especially in the early 1980s with suicide bombings. Now with potential […]

Is China Really Dumping US Treasuries? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “China is dumping US Treasuries to get out of the dollar.” This claim has been circulating the mainstream feeds lately, with the narrative that the “end of the dollar is near,” or “the US will lose its funding base” and the “bond yields will surge.” But are those claims valid? Such is what we will explore in more […]

EU Says Trump’s Tariff Workaround Violates Trade Deal Update (1715ET): Europe is now getting ‘legal’ over the whole thing – claiming that Trump’s new tariff workaround violates levels permitted in their trade agreement, Bloomberg reports. The European Commission, which handles trade matters for the bloc, told lawmakers Monday that the new global tariff will be added to levies that are already in place, according to Bernd […]

Dozens Dead After Mexican Special Forces Kill Cartel Boss “El Mencho” As U.S. Braces For Spillover Update (1710ET): Mexican authorities said 62 people, including civilians and troops, were killed after Mexican Army Special Forces, assisted by U.S. intelligence, carried out a daring raid that decapitated the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by killing its leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. Officials say at least […]

Newsom Says He’s Like Blacks Because He ‘Can’t Read’ And Got Low SAT Score California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) needs to work on his pandering skills – after telling a crowd of black people that he’s just like them because he can’t read and got a low SAT score.  “I’m not trying to impress you, I’m just trying to impress upon you, ‘I’m like you. I’m not better than you.’ I’m a 960 SAT guy,” Newsom told Atlanta […]

“The World Is In Peril”: Anthropic’s Safety Boss Quits Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, Most people have never heard of Mrinank Sharma. That is part of the problem. Earlier this month, Sharma resigned from Anthropic, one of the most influential artificial intelligence companies in the world. He had led its Safeguards Research Team, the group responsible for ensuring that Anthropic’s AI could not be used to help […]

Iran Strike Debate Erupts: Joint Chiefs Chair Allegedly Resists, Trump Fires Back Military generals tend to be much more realistic about the potential negative consequences of going to war, as well as difficulties and challenges, over and against the often more hawkish policy-makers. Currently, Pentagon generals appear to be belatedly speaking up, as Washington beats the drums of war on Iran. The Walls Street Journal reports […]

“Weapons-Grade Mind-F**kery”: A Campaign Of Bad Faith And Ill Will Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The SAVE Act can pass today under existing procedure. The obstacle is not the filibuster. It is the habit of surrendering to a myth.” – Alex Muse on X Lunacy proceeds from crime. In case you wonder why half the country has gone crazy, seek no further than Susan Rice’s stark warning to the other half of the country that is […]

Mexico’s Cartel Decapitation Strike Fallout: “Not The End, Just The Beginning” Mexican journalist Luis Cárdenas, listed as a journalist at MVS Noticias and a contributor to El Universal and El Heraldo de México, spoke with security analyst Oscar Balmen about the Mexican Army Special Forces’ decapitation strike against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by killing Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. Balmen explained to […]

What Causes Stagflation? Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, In the late 1960’s Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman challenged the popular view that there can be a sustainable trade-off between inflation and unemployment. In fact, over time, according to Friedman, expansionary central bank policies set the platform for lower economic growth and a higher rate of inflation (i.e., stagflation). A famous case of […]

Khamenei Prepares Secretive Succession Plan In Case He’s Assassinated  As US carriers deploy in the Mideast region and with tense nuclear talks inching forward in Geneva, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly taking Washington threats of assassination very seriously. According to a Sunday report by The New York Times, Khamenei has quietly established detailed succession plans and emergency chains of command in […]

AOC’s Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Over the past week or so, many on the political Right have understandably enjoyed a laugh or two at the expense of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.). AOC went to the Munich Security Conference to provide “balance” to the Trump administration’s presence and to burnish her own credentials on the global stage. Instead, she […]

IBM Plunges After Anthropic’s Latest Update Takes On COBOL After disrupting countless Software/SaaS/finance/real estate/broker sectors, Anthropic’s Claude is now going after targeted companies.  A little before 2pm ET, Bloomberg sent out a headline that Anthropic’s Claude has found yet another skillset: *ANTHROPIC SAYS CLAUDE CODE CAN AUTOMATE COBOL MODERNIZATION A herd of panicked IBM longs flooded to the Claude blog to read […]