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The movie AMSTERDAM which came out recently touches on the Business Plot, and themes of sub rosa fascists and Nazis in the American ruling class more generally. Fairly worth a watch if you're interested in history viewed through this s
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Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
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WaPo Rejects Op-Ed Critiquing Claims of Communist “Hoax” on Germ Warfare
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Supporter of Russian aggression sentenced to three years in prison in Germany
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Psychiatric detentions rise in first year of 988 hotline
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DMT Users Are Using AI to Draw the Strange Beings They Meet While Tripping
(vice.com)
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The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination
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Heat that led to Libor fix came from the top
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30 Tons of Explosive Chemicals Lost During Rail Shipment
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You don't find it interesting that Gates was intimately involved in pushing vaccines which were used by the CIA to gather DNA? And then went on to be a figurehead for the largest mass vaccination drive in human history? And had close d
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Have you even seen how much money Les Wexner alone gifted to Epstein, on top of the [checks notes] largest townhouse in Manhattan?
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> “Our documents show that Mr. Gates met with Norwegian officials to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan as part of Mr. Gates’ work on polio eradication,” said the Gates spokeswoman. “Mr. Gates has never been focused on or cam
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How would we know if Epstein had been successful?
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> trying to set up a philanthropic fund that he hoped would include the billionaire as an anchor donor haha yes, I'm sure this was the sum total of the influence Epstein was exerting.
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Far more money has probably been stolen with the "heads I win, tails you lose" approach -- just put on massive leverage and stick someone else with the bill if it blows up -- than has been stolen by all the Ponzi schemes in histor
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Wow, are there HFT firms doing this? How reliable is it?
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Vanilla options are hundreds of years old, but Myron Scholes (of the ubiquitous Black-Scholes pricing model) went on to be principal at LTCM.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure cables will always beat satellites over the same distance. One interesting idea I heard was to string stationary drones that would relay microwaves across the ocean, similar to what was done with the relay towers b
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Right, so that's "stacking to many levels of depth." To add some color to my point about how it "adds risk," the day Kim Jong-Il died, the market spiked lower and I was instantly lifted on every stacked offer I had
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> Top equities on US exchanges like NASDAQ and NYSE might be out of the scope for the average hobby quant, but a thinly traded penny stock, or a low-cap cryptocurrency on a smaller crypto exchange, might not be. These kinds of markets
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Yeah I was hired by a prop trading firm of old Chicago floor traders in 2009 and then shortly asked to come up with an algo strategy in Kospi 200 options, with no help from any experienced algo traders. I worked something out completely on
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I got an email from a recruiter for Eric Schmidt's startup incubator. Two things it was working on was programmable money (think CBDCs with all sorts of power to fuck with how you can spend your money) and "turning human capital i
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How the 'junk science' of parental alienation infiltrated American family courts
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Feinstein's primary caregiver: Pelosi's daughter
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Is this a common thing among billionaires? Like, any random guy with a few hundred million dollars and a sex trafficking conviction can just say, "I would like to meet with all of the powerful billionaires of Silicon Valley" and m
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What evidence is there that Epstein was a financier, other than that the press keeps dutifully repeating the claim? The few reporters who tried to look into it weren't able to find any traders or brokers who knew of Epstein or had done
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At this point it's beginning to look as though meeting with Jeffrey Epstein was some sort of prerequisite to joining the club.
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Peter Thiel Is Latest Billionaire Said to Have Met with Jeffrey Epstein
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Elon Musk subpoena in Epstein-JPM lawsuit can be served to Tesla, judge rules
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No I don't think you're open to any sort of arguments or changes to your position at all, and my comment wasn't really intended for you.
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