India Keeps Buying Russian Oil At Near-Record Pace Despite Expired Waiver

DARPA's Chilling Pre-COVID Blueprint: Predict, Manufacture, & Deploy Pandemics On Demand Authored by Jon Fleetwood, via Substack, A sprawling, multi-institution effort for "predicting" future pathogen characteristics, developing vaccines "in advance of need," and building the very systems intended to validate those predictions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent the early 2010s constructing what may have been the most ambitious predictive vaccine-development infrastructure ever attempted: a sprawling, multi-institution effort designed to determine the future characteristics of purported pathogens before they emerged and ultimately use those predictions to develop drugs and vaccines before they...

Iran Formally Declares MoU Deal Is Dead - Expands Target List To Saudi Base, Kuwait Water Plant Summary Iran formally suspends MoU with the US, declaring agreement is over & commitments will no longer be fulfilled. Fighting escalates into seventh strait day of heavy bombings. Iran reportedly struck a US base in Saudi Arabia for the first time in four months. US strikes disrupt southern Iran's telecom network, knocking out 116 communication towers amid new infrastructure war. Iran pounds Kuwait's energy infrastructure, damaging power & desalination facilities. Will the US announce withdrawal from MOU negotiations by...

Market Warning Signs And The 'Perfect' Hedge Via Crescat Capital, We showed in prior letters that the US stock market has recently reached all-time high valuations across a variety of dimensions. Now, the market is flashing warning signals of a potential major market top based on a variety of divergent technical and cross-market indicators. We show four of these in this letter: New 52-week Highs vs. Lows Chart Normally, when a stock market index moves up and down, the underlying stocks reaching new 52-week highs minus those hitting new 52-week lows go up...