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Activist Who Stormed Capitol Accused of Breaking Terms of Release John Sullivan, leader of the “Insurgence USA” group, is now facing accusations of not complying with his terms of release. He was released conditionally without bail on Jan. 15, after he was arrested and charged for his alleged activities at the U.S. Capitol amid the breach of the building on Jan. 6. According to the Washington Examiner‘s review of a court document from last week, a probation officer said that he “violat...

NY Post Deletes Story After Supposed GameStop Trader Says He Made It All Up Oops.Lindsey Ellefson | January 29, 2021 @ 8:07 AM Last Updated: January 29, 2021 @ 9:02 AM The New York Post has deleted a story about a 22-year-old who, the paper credulously reported, took out a secret second mortgage on his parents’ home to trade GameStop stock. A Twitter user has claimed responsibility for the story and insists he duped the outlet. The URL where the story once was now turns up a lan...

Investing Daily Printable PDF I often turn to history for context or, if needed, solace. Let’s set the Wayback Machine to the Spanish influenza, which lasted from 1918 to 1920 and infected 500 million people, which at the time was roughly a third of the world’s population. Globally the pandemic resulted in about 50 million deaths. When the Spanish flu ended, pent-up consumer demand combined with revolutionary new technologies (the airplane, automobile, radio, etc.) produced the bull mar...

Neera Tandens feud with Bernie Sanders hangs over OMB Senate confirmation Print this article President Biden is slowly assembling his Cabinet, but whats likely to be his most fiery Senate confirmation showdown (featuring his old friend and rival Bernie Sanders) hasnt even been scheduled yet. Bidens announcement that he had tapped Neera Tanden, 50, as the director-designate of the Office of Management and Budget, tasked with drafting his budget and overseeing his administrations budget plans an...

AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Jay L. Clendenin, Pool I’m no foreign policy expert but it seems to me if your number-one adversary on the planet wants you to win a presidential election vs. your opponent, the adversary believes it would fare better in dealings with your administration than with that of your opponent. While China experts and other political pundits debated, pre-election, whether the communist regime in Beijing would most prefer a Trump win or a win by Biden, the New Delhi Times...

This internet librarian is on a mission to archive the web before it is deleted With more information available only on the web, there are concerns it may easily vanish 24 January 2021 • 12:00pm Mark Graham fears that valuable parts of human history are being wiped out before our eyes. As the director of the Wayback Machine, a website that records how individual webpages have changed over time, he is acutely aware of how important it is to keep a record of what is being posted - and where. ...

Antifa.com redirects to White House website as trolls needle Biden The internet has a long history of similar shenanigans. Listen - 04:42 White House If you point your browser to antifa.com, you wont find black-outfitted protesters challenging racists and far-right extremists in a tense face-off. Instead, the URL will take you to President Joe Bidens spiffy new White House website, which was recently re...

The market will come to a decision probably in Feb/March about just how crazy Biden will get. The greatest fear is they will pump up the numbers of COVID to

Lucid Motors was near death and desperate for cash in 2018 when it was handed a lifeline. The savior was Saudi Arabia. The desert kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund invested $1.3 billion in the electric car start-up. Lucid regained full health. Now, in 2021, the Saudi fund and Lucid’s founders are poised to cash in by taking advantage of the manic market in so-called blank-check shell companies, also known as SPACs. In a deal that is near completion, according to a source familiar with the ne...

21 January 2021, 12:02 am EST By The United States has officially welcomed new President-elect Joe Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris this Wednesday, January 20, 2021, and along with their rise to the office is the launch of the new White House website, complete with a little secret for coders. (Photo : Chip Somodevilla / Getty) An Easter Egg for Coders According to Protocol, coders can check out the government websites HTML code, where they can find a little Easter egg from the ...