We’re surrounded by redcoats. They might not be part of King George’s military, but their mindset, what they support and what they’re willing to impose, is everywhere. The founders didn’t just fight an army. They fought a long, bloody war to secede from a system built on a set of views they considered as a…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy acquired 13,927 Bitcoin for $1 billion last week, funding the purchase through STRC share sales, lifting the company’s holdings to 780,897 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, added a large haul of Bitcoin to its stash last week, edging toward 800,000 BTC in total holdings. Strategy acquired…
United States ruler Donald Trump has attacked Pope Leo, the patriarch of the Catholic Church, as being “terrible for foreign policy.” The social media assault comes as Pope Leo emerged as a vocal critic of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. Christian Nationalism and Trump’s Weaponization of Religion The pope described Trump’s threat to destroy…
In an X post that went viral Sunday, Elon Musk said he “felt like I was dying” and almost went to the hospital after taking his second COVID-19 vaccine. Musk was responding to an X post about how Dr. Helmut Sterz, Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist, admitted during a German COVID-19 inquiry that an estimated 60,000…
Crypto exchange Kraken disclosed two insider-related support access incidents involving limited client data and said it is facing an extortion attempt after attackers claimed to possess internal system videos. Crypto exchange Kraken disclosed two insider-related security incidents involving support staff access to limited client data, followed by an extortion attempt by a criminal group, according to a…
When you strip away the propaganda, foreign aid is rarely about charity. It is about strategy, war, and buying influence. The latest long-run data show that from 1946 through 2024, more than $1 trillion in inflation-adjusted U.S. foreign aid went to just five recipients: Israel at $337.0 billion, Egypt at $198.9 billion, former South Vietnam at $193.8…
Join Gareth this morning to delve into the UK government’s plans to create a central YouTube content channel featuring influencers and everyday people in a bid to better communicate its policies to the public, as well as combat inflammatory ‘far-right’ content spreading online. After days of protests the Irish government announces measures to ease fuel…
End the War on Iran, Stop Weapons to Israel, Impeach the President Reasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran occurred while Congress was away from Capitol Hill for two weeks. Maybe so, but speculation aside, it…
Nobody was ready for a scenario in which the Strait of Hormuz is blocked for an indefinite period of time. The Iranians think that they will eventually get what they want by holding commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz hostage and causing as much pain for the global economy as possible. The Trump administration…
Introduction: Sleep and Physical Activity Found to Have Protective Effects A new large-scale scientific review has identified prolonged sitting, insufficient sleep and physical inactivity as significant, modifiable risk factors for dementia in adults. The analysis, which synthesized data from millions of individuals, found that adults who sit for more than eight hours daily face a substantially higher…
