“These Shell Companies Were Obvious”: Bessent Gives Nvidia Board 10 Days, Wants Outsider To Replace Huang Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Nvidia needs a “dramatic shakeup” at the top and should look outside the company for Jensen Huang’s successor, and he isn’t letting the ouster close the books on how the company’s chips reached China. (We lay the entire backchannel infrastructure out here… worth a read.) U.S. Secretary of […]

Democrat Insurgency In The Senate Against Schumer Grows Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is challenging Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for the top Democratic post in the Senate, and the Maryland senator is picking up support from colleagues, threatening Schumer’s leadership post. The contest has opened a split inside the Democratic Party days after its sweeping midterm win. “Sens. Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen, February 2023.”  (Jose […]

Jensen The White? Huang Reportedly Weighs Nvidia Comeback As Silicon Valley “War Room” Of Allies Assembles Days after resigning over his affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Jensen Huang is considering a return as Nvidia’s chief executive, according to the Financial Times, as his allies in Silicon Valley lean on the chipmaker’s board to reinstate him.Huang has discussed a potential comeback with confidantes, multiple people familiar […]

Still Digesting Peter Tchir, Academy Securities — November 15, 2026Last weekend we went with A Lot To Digest. Not only are markets trying to figure out the economic and market outlook post midterm elections, but we also had software outages, a nationwide ground stop, and the CEO of one of the most important companies in the world resign.Chinese ComputeOur week was meant to start at 5 a.m. on CNBC on Monday to discuss a variety of […]

Nvidia Lacks Corporate D&O Insurance Amid Huang Scandal Nvidia does not have directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance covering the company itself, an unusual omission for a major US-listed corporation that could leave the chipmaker facing substantial legal costs amid the controversy surrounding former chief executive Jensen Huang, according to Financial Times.The FT writes that while Nvidia reportedly maintains […]

Science Said We’d All Be Crushed To Death On Friday – It Was Peer-Reviewed Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle,Sixty-six years ago, the journal Science published a peer-reviewed study confirming what many know today: a distressing share of the academic literature is nonsense prattle among the elite – even as scientists continue to fawn over “peer reviewed research” like holy scripture. Back in 1960, […]

Was Jensen Taken Out Over Open Source? Sacks Says Anthropic’s ‘Safetyist’ Allies Want Full Govt Control Over Models & Chips Was Nvidia’s Jensen Huang ousted in part because he was the biggest corporate backer of open-source AI. David Sacks argues Anthropic’s “safetyist” allies (EAs and related groups Anthropic has funded) actually want government control of all models and chips – complete with surveillance and backdoors – […]

A Dark Storm Is Gathering Over The Housing Market Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceI’ve been warning about the continued risks surrounding AI steadily since August, and I continue to believe we’re going to see more bad news from the sector that has driven the bull market of the last few years. I also think more bad news is coming for Nvidia and I’ve also warned about crypto, and the shaky price action we saw this weekend […]

Iran Hits Bahrain Again As Guards Declare Hormuz “Closed” Iran fired drones at Bahrain early Sunday, its second attack in three days on the Gulf kingdom that hosts the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, after a lull that had held since September, as months of diplomacy to end the war have produced no breakthrough. Iranian Drones against the background of Bahrain’s Map (Kurdistan 24) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said six drones […]

Schumer, Jeffries Pledge To Ban Stock Trading By Members Of Congress Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times,Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Nov. 12 that Senate Democrats will ban stock trading for members of Congress and White House officials once they take the majority in January.Responding to a post from President Donald Trump, Schumer wrote on X, “Senate Democrats will ban stock trading for all […]

Liquidation Nightmare Sends Bitcoin Plunging As Market Gripped By “Extreme Fear” Bitcoin plunged to a four-month low overnight as leveraged long positions unwound compounded by weeks of ETF fund outflows, expectations of higher interest rates (and surging real yields), and concerns about tighter crypto regulation following the Democratic sweep of Congress. The deepening bear market also comes amid a broader retreat from risk assets […]

Putin’s Generals Push To Scrap Promise Not To Kill Zelensky, Days Before Trump-Xi Summit Russia’s security chiefs have demanded, and reportedly won, an end to the Kremlin’s unwritten ban on killing Volodymyr Zelensky and the top command of Ukraine’s General Staff, according to pro-Kremlin outlets citing senior sources inside Moscow’s security establishment.The claim surfaced Saturday in Bloknot, drawing on the Telegram channel […]

Trump Goes Quiet As Mossad Warns CIA Of Iranian Plot To Kill Him With Explosive Drones Israel’s Mossad has handed the CIA intelligence that Iran is planning to assassinate President Trump and senior members of his administration, possibly with explosive-laden drones, senior Israeli and American officials told Israel Hayom on Saturday.According to the paper, US intelligence agencies asked the Mossad to verify the material, and the […]

Houellebecq, France’s Most Famous Novelist, Faces Prison For Comments About Muslims Authored by Stephen Green via PJ Media,On some half-forgotten bookshelf downstairs is my English translation of French author Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 novel, Submission. In it, a coalition of lefties and a new Muslim Brotherhood party with a charismatic leader conspire to deny Marine Le Pen and her nationalists the chance to win the 2022 […]

USAF “Nuclear Sniffer” Jet Spotted Near Taiwan Strait A US Air Force WC-135R Constant Phoenix, commonly known as a “nuclear sniffer,” was spotted near the Taiwan Strait, southwest of Taiwan, on Sunday. The military aircraft collects airborne particles and gases to detect radioactive material. Its appearance on flight-tracking data comes amid China’s unannounced war drills simulating a blockade and attacks on Taiwan.The Flightradar24 […]

The War On Wealth Is Accelerating – And British Taxpayers Are Heading For The Exits Authored by Kelly Caro via International Man,According to P85 forms (the paperwork you file when you tell the taxman you’re gone), almost 69,000 taxpayers told HMRC last year they were done with the nonsense and leaving Britain for good.That’s up from 52,000 the year before – a 32% jump in a single year.These are the productive, the mobile, and the […]

Net Zero Is Falling Apart, One Target At A Time Authored by Ross Clark via CapX,This week it seems that another Net Zero domino will fall. The British Government is reported to be on the point of announcing that the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which lays down targets for the sale of new cars, will be watered down. This follows a consultation launched in August. At present, manufacturers are under an obligation to ensure […]

Europe’s ‘Last Bastion’ Quietly Took In More Migrants Than Anyone; Now The Backlash Hits Warsaw Poland’s nationalists marched through Warsaw on Wednesday under the slogan “Polak w Polsce gospodarzem!” – “A Pole is the master in Poland!” (translated) – as the annual Independence March sets off, with organizers claiming up to half a million marchers. Ulicami Warszawy przechodzą uczestnicy Marszu Niepodległości, który oficjalnie […]

From Sabotaged Supermarkets To RAF Fairford: Iran’s War On Europe Is No Longer Deniable Authored by Struan Stevenson via Townhall,France has finally done what European governments have been reluctant to do for far too long. On November 10, Paris formally accused the Iranian regime of conducting cyberwarfare against French citizens, attributing attacks on more than 700 supermarket sites to an offensive cyber unit affiliated with the […]

Needed: A World War Against Globalism Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,The wars to come will ultimately pit freedom-loving peoples of many nations against the architecture of the State – composed of the bureaucratic Leviathans at the national and international level, taxpayer-funded news organizations, and the broad spectrum of so-called “non-governmental organizations” whose budgets and personnel nonetheless come […]

Malfoid? Why Does This Harry Potter Fan Fiction Character Drive Leftists Insane? Who could have guessed a decade ago that Harry Potter, of all things, would become a central battleground for the cultural zeitgeist?  The political left’s obsession with the franchise is complicated, but it largely stems from writer J.K. Rowling’s “betrayal” of the progressive cult when she criticized the idea of transgender women (men pretending to […]

Trump Says Saudi Arabia Is ‘Disintegrating’ Via Middle East EyeSaudi Arabia is “disintegrating”, US President Donald Trump said in an interview released on Friday, which is likely to offend the kingdom, as it suffers missile and drone strikes from Yemen’s Houthis.Trump passed judgment on Saudi Arabia, one of the US’s closest allies, in an interview with Stephen A Smith, boasting he could destroy Iran in three days by attacking […]

US Loses Measles-Free Status After 26 Years As Death Toll Hits 10 The United States has lost the measles elimination status it has held since 2000, after an independent commission that reports to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) found the virus has been spreading inside the country for more than a year. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision on Friday, and CNN confirmed it with a source close to the […]

Why Most Americans Couldn’t Last 72 Hours In An Emergency Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times,Viral social media posts and text messages urging Americans to stockpile 90 days of food and supplies are gaining traction. One text message, reviewed by The Epoch Times, spread as these warnings usually do: from one friend to the next.It described a cyber specialist who came home from a conference shaken enough to warn people close […]

America’s Top Beef Processor Sees “Worst Part” Of Cattle Cycle Over One of America’s largest beef processors has spotted an inflection point in the industry’s brutal multiyear margin squeeze, saying the “worst part of the cycle” is over as cattle futures and supermarket ground beef prices retreat from their highs.”We do believe we are through the worst part of the cycle,” National Beef CEO Tim Klein told reporters on Thursday, […]