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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his brother are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possibly violating insider trading rules, according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the probe, said the investor watchdog agency is looking into sales of Tesla shares by Kimbal Musk, a member of the Tesla board, just before his brother, Elon, announced on Twitter that he would sell 10% of his own Tesla holdings, a move that sent Tesla (TSLA) shares sharply lower in the days that followed.

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard raged against the “power elite” and “their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state” as she delivered a keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Friday night. The Hawaiian US Army Iraq War veteran, who sought the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020 before endorsing Joe Biden in March that year, slammed what she dubbed the “Biden-Clinton-neocon-neolib foreign policy,” saying that in an ideal world “our leaders would haul James Clapper”, Former Director of National Intelligence under Barack Obama, “before a judge to answer for his lies to Congress...

Let's discuss value investor Jeremy Grantham's thesis on "super bubbles" and his target for the S&P 500. For almost a half-century, value-investing icon Jeremy Grantham has been calling market bubbles. Now, he says U.S. stocks are in a “super bubble,” only the fourth in history, and poised to collapse. Please do yourself a big favor and play the above interview in entirety. It's not a fluff interview. Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker grills Jeremy Grantham right from the get go about Grantham's view a year ago. Q&A Snips Schatzker: At the risk of putting words in your mouth, you are as certain...

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Minority Leader, was labeled the “least popular politician in America” in December. An aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics showed that just 24% of Americans see McConnell in a favorable light, while 59% view him unfavorably. It gave the Kentucky Senator a net negative approval rating of 35%.

In one fell swoop, Poland went from being a threat to the West's democratic-liberal political order to the tip of the spear in the fight to protect this order from what it suddenly sees as the preeminent threat: Russian President Vladimir Putin, and what the West perceives to be his "imperialistic" plan of expansion. Up until recently, US President Joe Biden refused to meet with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, due to what the Democratic administration believes to be the Polish government's conservative policies. The European Union, too, had mobilized to impose economic sanctions on Poland for "harming the values...

Russia is still attacking Ukraine and I am still seeing stories about actor/comedian Bob Saget’s cause of death. So now for something completely different. After last week’s Personal Consumption Expenditures, GDP and new home sales reports, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real GDP estimate for Q1 shriveled to 0.6%. The US Treasury yield curve? It is flattening rapidly as it typically does prior to a recession. Commodities? Commodity prices are UP 52% under Biden. And that includes prices dropping slightly from 2/24 to 2/25. And then there is average port delays in US ports. Hey, I thought Mayor Pete the port...

Russia has warned neighboring Finland on Friday of "serious military and political" repercussions if the Scandinavian nation opts to join NATO following the invasion of Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a weekly briefing that a Finnish addition to NATO could have "detrimental consequences." Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin said on Thursday that the debate within Finland on NATO membership "will change" following the start of a war in Ukraine. Both Marin and Finland's president Sauli Niinisto strongly condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine. "Despite prior warnings, this morning has come as a shock for all of us...

The retired Florida police captain who fatally shot a man inside a movie theater in 2014 was acquitted of murder by a jury late Friday. Curtis Reeves, 79, was charged with second-degree murder after he gunned down 43-year-old Chad Oulson during a matinee screening of “Lone Survivor” in suburban Pasco County. Defense lawyers and prosecutors were in agreement that Reeves asked Oulson to stop texting during the movie previews — which started an argument that ended with the former Tampa police captain opening fire. Reeves pleaded not guilty on the grounds of self-defense. His lawyers successfully argued that police training...

The 2020–2022 pandemic split parties and ideologues, separated friend from friend and family members from family members. Neighbors were dangerous, and strangers even more so: the invisible enemy stalking our lands overturned every other concern in life: The conflicts it spurred replaced bonds of affection with fear and hatred. More than ever, we need calm and level-headed thinkers, honest and willing to admit past errors, with eyes wide open for the corruption of industry or government itself. In other words, we need as little politics as humanly possible. As I wrote in a previous piece: we need “people without a...

416ft commercial ship bound for St. Petersburg intercepted in English Channel Baltic Leader intercepted by French sea police and seized for further inspection Boat, which was filled with cars, impounded in Boulogne-sur-Mer on Saturday French authorities said the ship was suspected of violating EU trade sanctions

Even as more off-label drug uses are discovered, Orwellian California lawmakers are introducing legislation to silence physicians who speak out on issues directly impacting their patients’ well-being, as well as the treatment of the coronavirus. Last week, Assembly Bill 2098 was introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) to punish physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety.

KYIV, Ukraine—Street battles raged through the night in the Ukrainian capital as Russian forces and undercover units in civilian clothes tried to enter the city, while Russian airstrikes and several airborne landings continued throughout the country. On Saturday, the third day of the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed with the aim of overthrowing Ukraine’s elected government and ending its alignment with the West, Ukrainian forces fought fierce battles on all fronts, with each side asserting it had inflicted heavy losses on the other. After sunrise, President Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a video address from the street outside the presidential...

JUST IN - Turkey bans Russian warships from entering the Black Sea.— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 26, 2022

As this column pointed out in 2014, “the struggle for Ukraine” is a chapter in a series of U.S.-orchestrated provocations, which began with the expansion of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) eastward to abut Russia’s borders — an expansion begun by President Clinton and pursued by Bush and Obama alike. It gathered momentum with the U.S.-backed attempts to incorporate Georgia and the Ukraine into the North Atlantic alliance, forgetting that the Ukrainian people, not unlike the “American People,” are not one people.Kiev is already controlled by Washington (through the IMF, the International Monetary Fund). We all remember (or should) how...

The United States has done much to keep alive the memory and learn the lessons from the genocides of the 20th century. The Jewish Holocaust, the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and the Armenian Genocide – most recently recognized by the Biden administration - are seared in the minds of us all. When discussing genocide, commentators typically focus on terrifying headline numbers – thousands, sometimes millions of victims. But the definition of genocide is not a numerical one. The United Nations defines this crime as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group”....

Is two plus two five? It could be…unless you’re racist.That idea is being bandied about, amid a social justice analysis of mathematics.Oddly, such a campaign is being supported by none other than Bill Gates.As reported by Campus Reform, the Gates Foundation has contributed $1 million to local governments and major universities in order inject “antiracism” into math.The effort is called “A Pathway to Equitable Instruction.”From the official website:A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority...

I think so. I asked to give a talk about COVID at MIT, but they couldn't find a faculty member to sponsor it. Apparently they don't allow viewpoints that challenge the mainstream narrative.Twenty four years ago (in 1998), I donated $2.5M to MIT. They named the auditorium in the EECS building named in my honor: the Kirsch Auditorium, Room 32-123.I’ve never asked to speak in the auditorium until now.I wanted to give a talk at MIT about what the science is telling us about the COVID vaccines and mask wearing and how science is being censored.I also wanted an opportunity...

On Wednesday, a Canadian doctor presented evidence—straight from an Australian study on Pfizer’s COVID-19 “vaccine”—corroborating the idea that the spike protein in COVID-19 “vaccines” enters the cell nuclei. According to Dr. Mikolaj Raszek, this is the first evidence he’s seen to back up the discovery last year that the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike protein potentially enters human cell nuclei and interferes with the mechanics of fixing broken and damaged DNA. If this is true, in theory, then the spike protein “could be a mutagen because it prevents the fixing of our DNA.” https://archive.fo/8X17s

About 40 years ago, America dodged a bullet. Women, in particular, were spared. The United States declined to ratify the inaptly named Equal Rights Amendment as part of the U.S. Constitution by letting the deadline lapse without the requisite number of states adopting it. In doing so, the states rejected a Trojan horse, disguised in the language of equal rights, destined to lead to extreme policies that a majority of Americans oppose—like mandatory taxpayer funding of elective abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Thankfully, the case for the ERA closed when the proposed amendment expired by its own terms...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE E X O D U SCHAPTERS 3-4 Now Moses came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And...