Ohio-based Chinese company teaches its US competitor a lesson or two in free market economy.
https://www.wsj.com/business/tariffs-china-trump-trade-4495c2a4?mod=hp_lead_pos7
Overkill with impunity isn't smart power projection but only the US can afford it.
How many airforces conduct ops in sovereign states with impunity from intl law while deploying off-the-shelf supreme tech platforms in excessive numbers?
The interesting discussion didn't dwell on these unique features of US power play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn207n2Hepo
Midnight Hammer: Lessons Learned
A few days later, Ruemmler received another email from Weingarten’s wife that began with “I certainly do hope that this time, [you] understand the finality of your ‘relationship’ with my husband.” Ruemmler forwarded the email to Epstein, saying “I have reread this 10 times.”
Weingarten had represented the Swiss bank Edmond de Rothschild Group before transferring the client to Ruemmler; Epstein was seen as a gatekeeper of the account. Ruemmler took on Rothschild as a Latham client, representing it in a U.S. regulatory matter.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/when-the-fbi-arrested-epstein-he-called-kathryn-ruemmler-39f7bf73?mod=hp_lista_pos2Epstein showered her with gifts, on her birthday and throughout the years, from luxury handbags to $10,000 in Bergdorf Goodman gift cards, and in 2019 listed her name in the notes of a wire transfer payment to a private jet company for more than $50,000, the documents show.
“The NSA picked up a phone call between two members of foreign intelligence involving someone close to the White House,” he said. “The NSA does not monitor individuals without a reason.” The person close to Trump is not understood to be an official or a special gov employee.
But rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, Gabbard took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, according to the whistleblower’s attorney, Andrew Bakaj.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
Sharp selloffs are hardly unusual in crypto, of course. They are so regular, in fact, that investors give them a name—crypto winter—that befits the belief that downturns are as predictable as the seasons. Some analysts believe this crypto winter could thaw faster than in the past
