The founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX has been accused of lying to customers amid fears the fallout from its bankruptcy could spread through “cascading contagion”.
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, claimed his arch-rival, Sam Bankman-Fried, misled clients and investors as FTX spiralled out of control.
Yes, suggests a lawsuit from a fired Vatican auditor.
Afired Vatican auditor and his deputy are suing the Holy See for $9.25 million, “alleging they were sacked after discovering financial irregularities,” according to an account by Reuters this week. The auditor, Libero Milone, says that Pope Francis signed off on his firing in 2017 after he exposed graft-ridden Vatican officials.
Joe Biden’s bumbling performance throughout his trip to Asia has drawn ridicule from the international press, and worries that he is projecting weakness on the world stage. Biden departed the White House on Thursday for a global junket to attend key meetings in Asia, and eventually Europe.
German soldiers have been instructed to tear out size labels from their new camouflage uniforms because they bear the initials “SS”, apparently an abbreviation for “small, short”.
In recent weeks the defence ministry has distributed about 313,000 sets of combat clothing, including helmets, sleeping bags and waterproof jackets and trousers, to the troops at a cost of €2.3 billion.
From neopaganism to cryptocurrency cults, the Internet today is full of strange quasi-faiths
In early 2022, a video-essay creator named Dan Olson uploaded a two-hour-long exposé to YouTube. “Line Goes Up—the Problem with NFTs” quickly became a viral sensation, accumulating nearly 9 million views as of August—an incredible number for a seemingly niche topic. (The acronym “NFT” stands for “non-fungible token,” the name of a very small subset of the still fairly obscure online cryptocurrency system.)
Olson had done his homework. The video begins with the real-estate crash of 2008, tracing not only how that crisis was allowed to happen but also the social and economic consequences that followed. From there, Olson explores the early days of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and its various features, promises, and problems. Olson moves on from Bitcoin to other digital currencies, such as Ethereum, but he wants to make a larger point than just identifying the idiosyncrasies and flaws of these technologies—he is interested in the social implications of “crypto” hype. The crypto world, according to Olson, is filled not only with hype but also with professional scammers, broken promises, predatory and antisocial behavior, desperation, greed—and rage. Rage at how the post-2008 world had turned out, rage at how the American dream doesn’t seem attainable anymore, rage at whomever and whatever could be blamed for robbing the people inside that online world of what they felt they were owed.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sportscars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.
But as he used his final hours of freedom to tell his story to The Associated Press, Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery.
HOW can the words ‘Covid amnesty’ even be uttered whilst the NHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US public health watchdog, are yet to lay down their arms?
I can quite see why the Covid-pushers would want free passes to exempt themselves from the consequences of their actions, under some crass slogan like ‘we acted from the best of intentions’.
Those most responsible for the opioid epidemic are part of America’s most privileged classes
More than two decades into America’s catastrophic opioid epidemic, the demographics of this unprecedented tragedy are clear. By far, the brunt of the harm has been borne by America’s poor and working classes.
Multiple studies show a strong correlation between lack of employment, economic distress and overdose fatalities. Indeed, a 2021 study by the National Academy of Sciences concluded most of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the mid-1990s among working-age men and women was attributable to drug poisonings of people with a high school education or less.
The head of private Russian military group Wagner has defended a brutal video apparently showing the death of a mercenary who defected to Ukraine.
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin said unverified footage of Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, being struck with a sledgehammer was “a dog’s death for a dog”.
The convicted murderer announced in September he had changed sides.
In the video he says he was hit on the head while walking in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and woke up in a cellar.
Why is a 20-year-old advising the UN about the environment?
Move over, Greta Thunberg. There’s a new pint-sized prophetess of doom in town.
Last week, a photo from the COP27 climate talks in Egypt went viral. Posing next to UN secretary-general António Guterres was 20-year-old Sophia Kianni, an American climate activist and student at Stanford. She claims to be the youngest adviser to the 73-year-old Guterres.
“White nationalism” is an “active” threat to the Canadian Armed Forces, a new report says, but the Forces’ counter-intelligence unit is under-resourced and unable to “proactively” deal with the issue.
In a report released Monday, the independent National Security and Intelligence Review Committee (NSIRA) said the Department of National Defence has known for years their internal “counter-intelligence” branch has been underfunded and hindered by policy constraints.
But white males are no longer interested in joining the Woke CAF so it can’t be much of a problem
Trudeau left out in the cold as China’s Xi engages in a whirlwind of diplomacy at G20
After over two years without leaving his country, Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t missing the chance for in-person diplomacy as he joins other world leaders at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, this week.
Following a highly anticipated summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, Mr. Xi will meet with the leaders of Australia and Japan, as well as Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Not on the list however, is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Parliament is now calmly discussing whether disabled children could be euthanised by doctors. In other words, infanticide
The representative of the medical regulator spoke in a straightforward, unemotional voice, as though his statements were self-evidently true. Sick children between the ages of 14 and 17, he told the parliamentary committee, should be allowed to choose to commit suicide with medical assistance.
Parents of babies who are born with severe disabilities should be allowed to kill them. Elderly people for whom “life no longer makes any sense” should also be able to end theirs. And so should the mentally ill, and so on and on. Members of the committee ask some follow-up questions, but no one pushes back.
Junior’s Canada is so progressive you can’t tell us apart from the Nazis.
This is the new trustee for @DrydenSchools. He was appointed by the school board. He’s a 23-year-old self described “mentally ill unhinged chaotic evil mafia prince.” I wish I was joking…
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 14, 2022
Without a realistic division of labor between the U.S. and its NATO allies, Taiwan will go undefended.
Elbridge Colby is one of the new generation of defense/national-security intellectuals in the mold of Andrew Marshall and Edward Luttwak, and, before them, Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter. Colby served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Strategy and Force Development in the Trump administration, where he led the way to shifting U.S. strategy to focus on renewed great-power rivalry after two decades of fighting “small” wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the so-called Global War on Terror. His most recent book, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, is a must read for understanding today’s global security environment.
