US Launches 48th Airstrike in Somalia of the Year

While The Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds The Digital Police State Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” - George Orwell, 1984 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus - cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle - the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines Sunday with a claim that Lebanese Christian communities in southern Lebanon are so happy with the protection afforded them by ongoing Israeli military occupation that they’re actually requesting to be annexed into Israel outright. Netanyahu went on to purport that it wasn’t only Christians, but that Druze and […]

Jane Street Accused Of Using Terra Telegram Backchannel Before UST Crash Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, A newly unsealed court filing in the Terraform Labs bankruptcy case alleges Jane Street used a private Telegram channel with former Terraform intern Bryce Pratt to obtain nonpublic information before the collapse of TerraUSD. Pratt is currently a systems developer at Jane Street.  The channel, called “Bryce’s Secret,” allegedly gave the quantitative trading firm a backchannel to Terraform insiders as Jane Street unwound exposure to TerraUSD (UST) shortly before the algorithmic stablecoin lost its dollar...