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"China accuses US of carrying out $13bn bitcoin hack" What!? Reverse hacking? What's next. <via Nikkei Asia>

"Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break" <via CNN News Alert >. So are the Brits actually annoyed about billion dollar BBC hits?

The Senate vote to advance the bill to end the shutdown must go to the House, meaning Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) will be sworn in and those pesky Epstein files come back into play. More champaign glass girls, anyone?

'Softbank dumps its entire Nvidia holding.' Is this a dump its AI portfolio rebalance or a double up to fund its hyperscaler investments? And which is more desperate?

Only suing the BBC for one billion? Why not do a full Musk and go for a trillion? In both cases both numbers are absurd.

Brilliant! CNBC Live today. The F word and not beeped!!!😂

"Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump" now who would bet on....

The BBC Panorama program was originally aired over a year ago on Oct '24....eerrr, why now?? And calling the BBC ‘fake news’ BBC' by Karoline 'Lie-it' Leavitt is too funny for words 😂

"German far-right figure seeks US refuge" - yet more (very) white refugees. Naomi Seibt, 25, outspoken supporter of the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland party.

Deal, no deal? First step with Sunday Senate vote but talk about convoluted: need to go back to the shutdown politics school to understand it.

"Trump says tariffs to yield dividends 'of at least $2,000 a person'" Yea, right, not if the Supreme Court rules against him. Wait, they're going fudge anyway. So $20, maybe? <Via Politico>

"President Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week " <via AP News Alert> - SNAP, no SNAP, SNAP, no SNAP - this has gone beyond ridiculous.

"Ghislaine Maxwell's prison emails show she is 'happier' at minimum-security Texas facility" - Gee, well what a surprise! <headline via NBC News>

Orbán and Trump: the two ties 😅

"Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order" - the message to the American people: we don't care if you starve, as long as we win the lockdown battle.

The weekly cartoon - The Economist's KAL Nov 6th 2025

The bloody war over Sudan's gold The killing in El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region is so brutal and widespread that bloodstains on the ground can be seen from space.

Totally agree, the continuing indifference by the major powers, the US included, is disgusting.https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/africa-news/2025/11/07/bloody-war-sudan-gold?

Switzerland Today “Home jacking” hits western Switzerland, while Swiss billionaires find an open door to Donald Trump.

Even Swiss billionaires go to Kowtow www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ab...?

Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia's remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island. Really?! Get the strategic and remoteness thing, only where's the power going to come from??!!

Swiss management is a complete shambles. Six is writing down 550 billion Chf of their Worldline investment. Add Credit Suisse, Migros, Julius Baar & Nestle all blowing up in various ways have to wonder where the so-called Swiss innovation excellence actually is?!

The FAA flight reductions: opps, the administration doubles down. They don't care so bye bye long weekend?

Quadruple election whammy. Betting sites should be taking wagers on how long it will be before a Republican shutdown fold.

"Alex Karp blasts ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry as ‘bats--- crazy’ for bets against Palantir, Nvidia" - with earnings just reported like that, why does he even care?? <headline via CNBC>

“While we appreciate the significant value created under Mr. Musk’s visionary role, we are concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk...” Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund on the Musk trillion $ pay package - well, doh!

Curious in the AWS OpenAI deal that Amazon that 'had hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s
graphics processing units (GPUs) in the U.S.' available. So these where what spare GPU's or what?

A headline from the left field indicative of the drop in inbound European tourist traffic to the US "Ryanair profit boosted 40% by European ‘reluctance’ to fly to US " via the FT.

"‘Useless’ and ‘hopeless’: Ryanair CEO slams U.K. government over travel tax" - Love it! He always says it how it really is 😄 via CNBC Europe.

"US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules" - no top floor windows...yet. Via Politico, Europe.

"No indication UK train stabbing attack was terror related, police say" - just another ordinary everyday homicidal maniac. Too many of them about - via CNN News Alerts.

Hyperscaler Meta finances off balance sheet the new Louisiana $27 billion mega–data center via Blue Owl and BlackRock using an SPV with private equity. Debt yields 6.58% at issue, near junk rating. No way a cockroach but definitely an elephant.