Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor Indicted In "Biggest Bribery Scandal In State History"

Trapped: The Private Credit Exit Door Has Been Locked And Sealed Shut Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance While headlines are fixated on the Iran war and today’s “feel good” market rally, it is worth noting that beneath the surface, hours ago credit markets just got worse. The latest example comes from Apollo, which has been forced to put the brakes on investor withdrawals from one of its largest retail focused funds, according to Bloomberg. Its $25 billion Apollo Debt Solutions vehicle is the latest private credit flaming bag of shit that has hit...

Argentina Threatens UK With Court Action Over Falklands Oil Drilling Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Argentina will sue the UK unless it suspends an oil drilling project off the coast of the Falkland Islands, the BBC has reported, citing an X post by Argentine president Javier Milei. "I instructed the Foreign Ministry and our legal teams to initiate international arbitration against the United Kingdom for the illegal plundering of our resources through the Sea Lion Project in the North Malvinas Basin," the Argentine president wrote on the social media platform. "If in...

How Governments, Corporations, & Technocratic Systems Are Quietly Redefining Ownership In The 21st Century Authored by Milan Adams via PreppGroup, There are periods in history when societies begin to discover that the liberties they believed to be permanent were, in reality, conditional arrangements tolerated only while they remained politically convenient. Across the Western world, governments are quietly expanding the legal and administrative mechanisms through which private land can be reclassified, restricted, absorbed, or transferred in the name of infrastructure, sustainability, industrial security, climate adaptation, and economic modernization. Entire farming regions are now...