Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
The situation in the Middle East is getting very bad for world food supplies. The Strait of Hormuz is a key place for ships, and now that the fighting is happening, many ships cannot get through. Because of this, about 30% of the world’s fertilizer trade is blocked. Fertilizer is how farmers grow enough food …
Daniel Rosenberg, producer of Spike Lee’s “Inside Man,” signed a $900,000 contract to produce pro Israel social media content targeting the U.S. public. His firm, Piro, is set to hire a director and CAST actors for the campaign. Like many other Israel linked FARA contracts, payments are reportedly routed through Havas. The listed point person …
Qatar is a foreign government that spent $1.2 billion on US schools in 2025 alone. They are not just donating. They are buying influence and control over what is taught in US universities. This funding is a form of lobbying to build control in the US education system. https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-releases-latest-foreign-funding-disclosures-federally-funded-american-universities This report documents over $5.2 billion …
The institutions that once defined American news and culture are failing all at once. The Washington Post, a paper that once wielded enormous influence, is now shrinking faster than anyone imagined. Print subscribers fell below 100,000 for the first time in more than five decades. Losses exceeded $100 million in 2024, and more than 300 …
A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of …
Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.” pic.twitter.com/0NEm7cHKOr — The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) February 9, 2026 🇺🇸 BREAKING: Rep. Lauren Boebert is PSSED, leaving …
This is straight-up government-sponsored stupidity. Federal district court judge rules taxpayers must fund infinite refugee daycare scams. This is not a legitimate system. This is not democracy. https://t.co/W9WmsqI01l — Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 10, 2026 If the American public is unable to influence the outcome, we do not live in a democracy. The House, Senate …
Sounds less like a smoking gun and more like a con artist talking himself up. For those who still don’t believe Trump is compromised by Russia, here is clear proof from Epstein’s emails: https://t.co/w6NVbF9DcT pic.twitter.com/S4yC8qIkaL — Joni Askola (@joni_askola) December 26, 2025 Factcheck: The 2018 Epstein email to Jagland is authentic, from congressional documents released …
Context from a report by Trump’s Department of Education: “The largest, wealthiest, and most sophisticated of America’s institutions of higher education have received … foreign funds [totaling] billions of dollars.” “For at least two decades, the industry has been on direct notice that at least some of these foreign sources are hostile to the United States and …
America's transition to a low-trust society means that every single aspect of the social contract is monetized by fraudsters “Fake students” enroll in community colleges, and collect federal and state student aid Officials don't even know the full extent of the scale of fraud pic.twitter.com/s1MdLXiFme — skepticalifornia (@skepticaliblog) October 15, 2025 An Ivy League student …
WikiLeaks exposes secret Israeli influence campaign in the U.S. Leaked FARA filings show that Bridges Partners LLC, acting for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been distributing over $900,000 to recruit, train, and pay U.S. influencers to flood American social media with pro-Israel content. ➡️ Influencers are reportedly receiving up to $7,000 per post, coordinated …
Wealthy Californians are pouring $2.4 million into the campaign of Zohran Mamdani, and the media barely pauses before spinning this as grassroots energy or “momentum” from coast to coast, yet the story they refuse to tell is simpler and uglier: outsiders with deep pockets are shaping elections in places they do not live, will never …
The White House has exerted extraordinary influence over decisions at the F.B.I., issuing political loyalty tests and directly ordering the firings of agents targeted by President Trump and his allies, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by three former bureau officials who accused the administration of illegally dismissing them. The sprawling suit, filed in …
The tension between information and power has reached a new peak. Wikipedia, long hailed as the open-source encyclopedia anyone can edit, has suddenly become a battlefield in Washington. What started as sporadic accusations of edit wars over the Gaza conflict has transformed into a full congressional probe. On August 27, the House of Representatives escalated …
Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China – $460.7 million Japan – $436.5 million Liberia – $353.2 million South Korea – $325.8 million Saudi Arabia – $311.5 million Marshall Islands – $285.1 million Qatar – $257.8 million United Arab Emirates –242.7 million Bahamas – $242.5 million Israel – $194.9 million Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China …
CHATGPT BOTS START FORMING THEIR OWN MINI-CULTURES Well… this isn’t good… Left alone in groups, AI bots didn’t just chat — they built a shared language from scratch. 100 bots, no memory of the full group, just one-on-one interactions with rewards for agreeing on random names. The result: a system-wide naming trend, totally improvised, with …
They have no plan, no solutions, just endless hysteria. They’re still throwing tantrums over Elon Musk’s subpoena while Trump continues to dominate the political landscape. And now, Rep. Al Green is up there grandstanding, ranting about ethnic cleansing, as if repeating the same accusations will suddenly make them true. This isn’t about justice—it’s about power. …
The Woke Mind Virus in our Universities. Frequency of Terms Denoting Prejudice in 175 million Scholarly Abstracts … it has increased dramatically over time. This is being driven by the far left in academia. Woke is communism rebranded and repackaged. Remember when the woke professor admitted it in a campus speech titled, “How to use …
their time is coming. Trump has murmured 'Qatar' once or twice. — commentary (@gettingtrumpnow) December 24, 2024
🙌🏻 pic.twitter.com/m8cDDY0Zxm — Traditional Thoughts (@dannymsn77) December 10, 2024 https://twitter.com/WallStreetMav/status/1867494679278686344 THE ENEMY WITHIN: Arabella Advisors dark money group behind black Communist ‘solidarity’ magazine.
Brigham Buhler: “If Bobby Kennedy’s put in a position to make change, he will. The things that I’ve been told is there’d be a potentially an executive order to drive forth this sweeping change in healthcare and attempt to fix and challenge the broken status of our systems and the incentive systems that we discussed …
Holy smokes! Kevin O'Leary just said that Nancy Pelosi's and Chuck Schumer's gripping influence on the Democratic party is GONE after this election. “The influences of a Schumer or a Pelosi or a movie star or an Obama deciding to anoint somebody—those guys are gone. In four… pic.twitter.com/0QCxmI0Iyo — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) November …
Repo fails make sense being an indicator of collateral difficulties. Same for the 4-week US Treasury bill rate when it falls substantially. But how does Japanese government bill yields fit into the US$ repo picture? And why are they such a solid fit for it? The answer lies in the carry trade and what it …
This is so ruthless. Vivek got on his plane in flip-flops and shorts, flew to California, went to the Buzzfeed headquarters, and handed them a list of conservatives to hire. They had no choice but to listen because he's one of their new owners 😂 He's now their 2nd largest… pic.twitter.com/WvsswYvQ74 — George (@BehizyTweets) October …
Character.AI, valued at $1B, is facing a lawsuit from the family of a 14-year-old who took his life after becoming obsessed with an AI chatbot based on “Game of Thrones” character Daenerys Targaryen. The lawsuit claims that the AI technology “tricks customers into handing over their most private thoughts and feelings,” holds it accountable for …
Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders h/t levine2112
Pretty much — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 3, 2024 Yep. He talked more about this later on in the podcast. Fascinating stuff. — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 3, 2024
You know, after years of defending Biden for virtually everything, his terrible debate performance truly seems to have broken the dam, and given the media cover to report on what they never would have before, as it appears that they are actively trying to push him to drop out of the race. Imagine my surprise …
The U.S. Farm Credit System is currently in a critical state, marked by alarming evidence of foreign interference and systemic manipulation. These issues extend beyond mere policy concerns, impacting national security and the stability of our food supply chain. 🚨🇺🇸 — AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM TENNESSEE RANCHER + AG ATTORNEY DUSTIN KITTLE ON IMMEDIATE THREATS …
UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs—independent pharmacies—out of business. @matthewccook5 has more.https://t.co/jEADS2xOLI — David Dayen (@ddayen) March 21, 2024 Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are the shadowy middlemen who decide what drugs you can buy, where you …