The Horrifying Endgame in Ukraine

What's So Great About Diversity? Authored by DSr. James Allan via DailySceptic.org, ‘Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or...

Private Credit Firesale Begins: World's Largest Asset Manager Gates Investors In $26 Billion Fund Three weeks ago, when the largest US Private Credit-focused asset manager Blue Owl, was faced with a flood of redemptions due to its outsized exposure to software loans (which are very rapidly being repriced to zero thanks to the disruption from AI), the firm opted against reinstating quarterly redemptions on a retail fund and decided to return investor capital through assets sales instead (effectively also freezing the money in it and gating investors ) announcing a massive...

A new poll shows that President Donald Trump’s calls to take Greenland and his foreign policy overall are unpopular with Americans. Trump ran on an America First platform that would avoid unnecessary foreign entanglements and wars.  According to a new AP-NORC poll, 72% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of Greenland, including 91% of Democrats […]