Sen. Blumenthal Says US ‘Seems To Be on a Path’ Toward Putting Troops in Iran

'13 US Bases Uninhabitable': Pentagon Admits Much Of Iran War Overseen By Personnel 'Working Remotely' The New York Times really buried the lede in a fresh report entitled "Iran’s Attacks Force US Troops to Work Remotely." With the report noting that before the Iran war started the Pentagon had some 40,000 troops in the region, we are told that many have been widely dispersed due to the Iranian retaliatory bombing campaign on the Gulf, even as far as Europe, and must 'work remotely'. Somehow readers expect they are about to read...

The AI Trade: Now With Less Circle And More Jerk Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance As if markets didn’t already have enough to worry about heading into the weekend — an escalating conflict involving Iran, growing stress in private credit, and the ongoing annoyance of positive real interest rates — one of the “AI will solve everything, just add capex” deals that everyone in markets have been quietly laughing about while investing in for the past year has officially started to unravel. According to Bloomberg, Oracle Corporation and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand...

Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe's Education System Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Europe is literally paying Indians hundreds of euros a month to “study” while its own students can’t afford rent and are drowning in debt. In a now-viral video, an Indian student in Europe boasts about the arrangement. He explains how the EU provides him with 1400 euros every single month that covers rent, travel, and meals, with zero student debt, while he still saves 600 euros every single month.  He walks through what he calls “elite scholarship secrets,” noting that a simple bachelor’s...