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And they have it out for his fake sons too; ustin Sun was already one of the richest people in the world, having made his fortune in the no-rules early phase of the crypto industry, when he first met the three men from World Liberty Financial. It was October 2024, and the only thing Sun knew of the company they were hoping he would invest in was that it was being launched by then-candidate Donald Trump and his three sons. Neither Don Jr., Eric, and Barron nor anyone else with the Trump name was on the video call that day. Instead, on the other side were World Liberty’s three top executives: an internet-marketing hustler who had spent time in jail on drug charges and been sued multiple times for fraud, a former professional pickup artist, and the son of Donald Trump’s best friend. Chase Herro, the internet marketer, was a wiry 41-year-old with sleeve tattoos, perma-stubble, and a vocabulary rich in blue-collar slang. Zak Folkman, the pickup artist, also 41, had both ears pierced and win! tattooed on one biceps in a comic-book-style speech bubble. He and Herro had previously launched a crypto platform that was hacked and drained of money, prompting accusations from at least one large investor of insider theft. The third co-founder was Zach Witkoff, the 33-year-old son of Steve Witkoff, the real-estate mogul who now serves as President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East. Zach Witkoff had been arrested for cocaine possession leaving a Miami nightclub in 2022 and generally presented as an awkward rich kid (“If you could anthropomorphize a squirrel,” as a former World Liberty adviser put it). “My dad got shot at with the president the other day,” Witkoff said by way of introduction on the call. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/justin-sun-world-liberty-lawsuit-trump-crypto-herro.html Sun, who was raised in China by middle-class journalist parents and earned a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, built his fortune by launching his own blockchain, Tron, which became popular in Asia as a fast and cheap way to move U.S.-dollar stablecoins. Tron’s digital coin, $TRX, with a market cap of some $31 billion, is the eighth-most-valuable cryptocurrency in the world. According to Forbes, Sun’s net worth is an estimated $8.5 billion, making him richer than George Soros and not far behind Bill Ackman. (Sun suggests he’s worth more than that; when Bloomberg estimated his wealth at $12.5 billion, Sun sued.) In his ascendancy, Sun had not escaped the attention of the U.S. government. In March 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Biden administration charged him and his companies with fraud, alleging market manipulation and the unregistered offer and sale of securities. Sun was charged simultaneously with Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, Akon, and Soulja Boy, who were accused of illegally hawking Tron’s cryptocurrency without disclosing Sun paid them to do so. The SEC also accused Sun of artificially inflating the price of $TRX by making “hundreds of thousands” of essentially fake trades among his own accounts — and of lying: “Sun materially misrepresented the truth about the touting campaign to deceive investors,” according to the SEC. Later that year, Tron made headlines for reportedly being used by terrorist groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting additional heat on Sun, who had reportedly avoided traveling to the U.S. for years out of fear he’d be arrested. (Tron later took measures to better police its platform.) TOPSHOT-HONG KONG-CHINA-ART-BANANA Sun eating a $6.2 million banana bought at auction from the artist Maurizio Cattelan in 2024. “It’s still fresh.” Photo: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images Now, on the eve of the presidential election, the three guys on the Zoom were offering Sun an interesting investment opportunity that, should Trump win a second term, might also conveniently help relieve this legal pressure. Don Jr. and Eric Trump were all in on the project, the three World Liberty founders said on the call. In fact, the Trump family, at the time, owned 75 percent of the business. The Trumps’ passion for World Liberty, the founders told Sun, came from being “debanked,” or off-loaded as clients, by JPMorgan and Capital One in the wake of the January 6 insurrection. They were committed to pursuing a crypto alternative for their wealth — a way to control their own money through uncensurable digital wallets. Trump would preside over a financial revolution enabling regular citizens to bypass banks and invest their assets freely across decentralized crypto platforms. World Liberty would build innovative projects that delivered on the new administration’s ambitions. “They said they were the victims of those centralized controls,” says Sun. “I believe in the vision of what was presented.” Sun, who has a libertarian streak (he became an Ayn Rand fan in graduate school), says he identified with fears of a “very big centralized power that eventually will enslave everyone.” He liked the pitch enough that he was willing to overlook the founders’ worrisome backgrounds. In November 2024, Sun transferred $30 million to World Liberty and came aboard as an adviser, receiving billions of yet-to-launch $WLFI coins — the key token in the company’s future crypto ecosystem — in exchange. He was immediately the biggest investor in the project. Sun’s involvement also gave World Liberty a halo of safety in the eyes of many other crypto investors. In the month before Sun invested, World Liberty had brought in only $21 million from other investors, a fraction of its target. After Sun’s involvement was made public, money poured in (including another $15 million from Sun). World Liberty closed its initial sale in January 2025, having raised $300 million. Over the next year or so, Sun would come to believe he’d made a colossal mistake. World Liberty would disappoint his expectations and those of many other investors: The decentralized crypto products it promised would largely never materialize; the money investors put in would remain mostly locked away from them; and the $WLFI cryptocurrency would crash, leaving many token holders with huge losses while the president and his partners made hundreds of millions in profits. Sun would be stripped of his tokens entirely. “Today, the thing I regret the most is not only that my money got stuck but that my name is on the project,” Sun says. “I believe many other people also got harmed.” In April 2026, he filed a lawsuit against World Liberty alleging fraud and breach of contract. When we spoke in June via Zoom, it was late in the evening in Hong Kong, where he lives. His background was a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when the screen faltered, I could see he was lying down, his head on a pillow. Wearing a deep-blue crewneck T-shirt, he drank water from a carafe as he walked me through his past and his time with World Liberty. Our conversation took place under the shadow of defamation claims World Liberty had recently made against Sun, and he seemed torn between wanting to condemn the company’s actions and staying within the guardrails his lawyers had set for him. But he couldn’t hide his outrage at World Liberty — for making a mockery of the principles it was purportedly founded on and for, in his eyes, essentially stealing his money in full public view. “I never expected this to happen to me,” says Sun. “This is the worst-case scenario.” Sun’s account, and those of others who invested in and worked for the company, depict an enterprise that was partially inspired and de facto run by Herro — a man whose career might be characterized as a high-speed succession of shameless for-profit hustles. Sun and other investors describe how World Liberty soaked up hundreds of millions in investments based on the Trumps’ involvement, then sat on the money. Outside investors, including Sun, always seemed to lose, while company insiders always won. “I thought surely these people would not do what they did with such a public profile attached,” says Sun. “Looking back, I was wrong about that. Unfortunately, as alleged in the complaint, certain operators leveraged the Trump brand to profit through fraud.” The president’s financial disclosures reveal that, in 2025, his ventures brought in at least $2.2 billion with crypto accounting for more than half of that total. The largest individual element of that historic windfall — likely the best financial year of his life and the most profitable ever for any president — was World Liberty, which put some $800 million into Trump’s pocket. While the Trumps were hands off on day-to-day matters — and Sun is careful to say his issues are not with the Trumps directly — they were the largest owners of the company and certainly the ones who decided its shape. “No president I can think of has ever exploited the office this way for their own personal monetary gain,” says Don Fox, who served as general counsel and then acting director of the Office of Government Ethics under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “In the post-Watergate era, nobody’s gotten wealthy off the presidency, certainly not fabulously wealthy.” Trump has also used his office to protect his investment, signing an executive order essentially instructing the SEC to go easy on crypto as soon as he was inaugurated and while World Liberty was still raising money, which, Fox adds, “is a criminal offense” for any executive-branch official except the president and the vice-president. Trump didn’t start out a crypto booster. In 2019, he said he was “not a fan of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money.” Trump argued they “can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.” Out of office, though, he seems to have been awakened to what crypto could do for him: It was popular with young men, a key part of his base, and the industry became an enthusiastic source of campaign contributions. He seems, too, to have recognized that it could make him much richer than he already was. World Liberty Financial And ALT5 Sigma Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell The Trump family teamed up with former pickup artist Zak Folkman, left, and self-described “dirtbag” Chase Herro to createcrypto company World Liberty Financial prior to the 2024 election. Photo: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images Trump’s sudden interest in crypto can be traced back to a seemingly serendipitous meeting with Chase Herro in 2023. As Herro tells the story, he bumped into Zach Witkoff that summer at the Witkoffs’ golf resort, the Shell Bay Club, near Miami, and Zach offered to drive him around the course. “Literally, on the golf cart, we just started shooting the shit,” Herro later told Fortune. They became fast friends. Zach introduced Herro to his father, Steve, and the elder Witkoff brokered a meeting between Herro and Trump. Sitting with Trump, then in exile at Mar-a-Lago, Herro needed to prove that there was real money in crypto — and that he, seemingly a nobody, was actually absurdly rich. Herro pulled out his phone and moved some $100 million in crypto coins from one wallet to another. Trump was sold. “That turned the lights on,” says a former World Liberty adviser who has known Herro for several years. (The White House had no comment; a spokesperson for World Liberty said this “story is inaccurate” but did not specify why.) From there, Trump began courting the crypto vote and receiving generous contributions from the industry. He declared he would make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the planet” and branded himself the future “crypto president.” He officially launched World Liberty shortly before the election and his own $TRUMP meme coin (an entirely separate crypto venture) in January 2025, days prior to his inauguration. Says the former adviser, “Chase was very proud: ‘Who would have thought? Dirtbag like me.’” Herro, roughly five-foot-ten with a slender build that he has described as the body of a 12-year-old synchronized swimmer, grew up in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin. His family was “very poor,” he said on a podcast in early 2020: “I think when you live in poverty, you assume everybody’s poor.” He sold marijuana and was arrested at least four times before his 18th birthday on charges including theft — for a scheme in which he was caught on-camera cashing his stepfather’s checks — and drug possession. Herro’s mother once called the police on him for domestic abuse. Shortly after high school, following a drug-related arrest, Herro cut off his ankle monitor and fled to California, according to a story he’s told to friends and on podcasts. When he got to California in the mid-aughts, Herro, who pronounces (and often spells) his name Hero, reinvented his origins. He described his mother as an ultrawealthy cheese-factory magnate and his father as a Mafia member who had been murdered in front of him, according to former roommates. (On podcasts years later, Herro said that his father had died of a heart attack and was found alone in his home and that he’d bought his mom a house, told her to “quit her job, and let her retire.”“My parents have no money,” he said on a separate podcast.) He worked at an ampm gas station in San Diego and then in construction, but he bragged about having a second home and a fancy-car collection. “None of that existed,” says a former friend. “He was like, ‘You just gotta talk about it like it’s already here.’” A former roommate says even two decades ago he clocked Herro as a sociopath. “Literally everything is a lie,” says the former roommate. “The watches he’s wearing, the sunglasses — fake. He wouldn’t say he went to McDonald’s; he’d say, ‘I ate at Ruth’s Chris.’” (That was not the only time someone made this assessment about Herro. “If someone calls me a sociopath, I kind of, like, look over and I’m like, ‘Thanks, I think?’” Herro said on a podcast in 2020. “If you’re going to invest money in a day trader or investor, I want them to be a sociopath.”) Herro’s fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy began to bear fruit when he discovered the then-hot world of affiliate marketing. He would create false dating profiles, pretending to be a single woman, and post them on sites like Backpage or Craigslist; when someone expressed interest in meeting in person, Herro would ask them to first sign up for a background check, enrolling them in a $40-a-month service from which he got a commission, according to the former roommate. “I remember going to his house and he’d have, like, 20 laptops out just running these bots that would post these things,” says this person. Herro sold hair-loss remedies, colon cleansers, and tactical flashlights. In 2010, after Herro launched a marijuana dispensary called Healthy Wealthy and Wise, a man who believed he’d invested $170,000 in the venture sued him for fraud, claiming the corporation never existed and Herro had deposited the funds into his personal account. (The plaintiff was awarded a default judgment with interest.) Soon, a website appeared detailing complaints against Herro under the domain name ChaseHeroScam.com. “Chase just doesn’t care who he has to step on or who he has to jump over; it was like, ‘I want to be rich,’” says the former friend. “That was it. Not even famous; just rich.” Herro moved to a different part of San Diego County and gave his old friends a tour of his new home. “Hidden inside fake books were just stacks of cash,” says another former friend. Herro also displayed a Desert Eagle pistol — one of the largest-caliber handguns sold in the U.S. — on his nightstand. On YouTube, Herro posted videos of a warehouse full of dirt bikes and mini go-carts, paintball guns, and other toys; friends remember photos in which he was unloading a moving truck filled with fine art. He bought a 34-foot boat he named Clickbait. In 2019, the entrepreneur Sam Bakhtiar asked Herro on a podcast to opine on fraud. “At least they’re trying to do something in life. It’s fucked up, but, like, I’ll give credit to a bank robber versus someone who sits on a fucking TV and eats potato chips all day,” he said. “Granted, is their execution wrong? Yeah, probably. But I’m not God; I’m not here to judge.” Herro met Zak Folkman in an online “mastermind” group, where they shared tips about how to make a lot of money quickly. Folkman was a co-founder of a website called Date Hotter Girls. They quickly became business partners. “He’s a Chad,” the former World Liberty adviser says of Folkman. Herro and Folkman launched several online communities, including one they called the Watchers, promising investment advice and selling subscriptions for thousands of dollars a year to access their network — a kind of knockoff of Tai Lopez. In 2021 at a meeting in Miami, Herro pitched his supporters on the promise of a decentralized-finance, or DeFi, crypto project. “He was almost crying as he told us how incredible it was that he put 90 percent of his net worth into DeFi and it was the most amazing financial thing he’d ever discovered,” says a member of the group. “He seemed like a genuine evangelist and very passionate about it.” A year later, the project was worthless, but Herro showed no signs of having lost nearly all of his assets. By then, he had a fleet of about a dozen luxury vehicles, all of them white, with Montana plates, exploiting a loophole that allowed him to avoid paying taxes on the cars. Taxes overall were now such an issue for Herro that around 2021 he moved to Puerto Rico — claiming on Facebook he lived at the Ritz there — for half (plus a day) of each year, taking advantage of the popular tax haven. “It sucks; we call it just putting in time. It almost feels like going to jail,” he told a friend. “I just do it because it saves me so much money.” When Herro met Zach Witkoff at the golf course, it probably wasn’t a coincidence. “I don’t think anything is incidental with Chase,” says the former World Liberty adviser. “It’s been crazy to watch him. It’s like the same exact thing he’s been doing for years; he’s just in different rooms with different, more powerful people,” says the former roommate. “My friends and I were just waiting for the day that Chase ends up in handcuffs. But over the years, it’s like, Holy shit — he’s doing what now? He’s in the White House? I was like, Wow, the scam artist teamed up with the biggest con man.” Says the second former friend, “It’s unbelievable this guy scammed his way to the top.” Herro’s credentials as a crypto entrepreneur began and ended with a project he launched in April 2024, just a few months before World Liberty was formed. Called Dough Finance, it was supposed to be a DeFi blockchain platform from which Herro promised “guaranteed” profits through a process he called “looping,” according to an investor named Jonny Lopez. This involved repeatedly borrowing against crypto holdings and using the borrowed funds to buy more. Herro’s business partner was Folkman, who got a degree from New York Law School in 2010, around the time he co-founded Date Hotter Girls under the pseudonym Zack Bauer. (On the site, he sold an e-book — still available in a package priced at $97 — that includes “a story about Zack ‘motorboating’ a girl at a dive bar” and instructions on how to “move situations toward sex ridiculously fast,” according to a promotional page.) That spring and summer, Herro raised money from investors, including Lopez, who put in $1 million. “Bro I never do shit,” Herro texted Lopez, according to evidence later filed in court. “All handshakes and go.” Herro indicated to Lopez that Dough had “over $3 billion” in liquidity: “What you think I built some stupid toy lol.” But days after Lopez had completed his investment, his money disappeared. Dough had been hacked; the money was gone. UAE-ECONOMY-CRYPTO-CONFERENCE Sun in Dubai with Zach Witkoff and Eric Trump in 2025 before the big breakup. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images Lopez and other investors were incredulous — and blamed Herro. According to a lawsuit filed by Lopez in 2025 accusing Herro of negligent misrepresentation and fraud, Herro “altered or manipulated Dough Finance’s code” and staged a fake governance vote as part of a plan to steal investors’ money. (Folkman is not named in the lawsuit.) “As it turns out: each and every promise and representation that Chase made to Jonny was a complete lie — a ruse by Chase to pump the liquidity on Dough Finance’s platform so that Chase could take it for himself,” Lopez alleged in the suit. When a process server attempted to serve him with the lawsuit, Herro ran. (In July 2026, Herro urged the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Dough really had been hacked.) Suspicions around the Dough hack were rampant when Trump partnered with Herro and Folkman on World Liberty two months later. Trump officially announced World Liberty in a livestream in September 2024, and the company released a “Gold Paper” (a spin on the white papers that crypto projects typically publish) emblazoned with his portrait over a graphic of a golden paint splotch. In the paper, World Liberty said its mission was “to democratize finance” — a rip-off of trading app Robinhood’s slogan. What World Liberty seemed to promise was unprecedented in the U.S.: a government-blessed crypto project that would offer an alternative not just to crypto platforms like Coinbase or Circle but to banks themselves. Indeed, World Liberty, “inspired by the vision of Donald J. Trump,” proposed a “new strategy” that would “help to safeguard the US Dollar’s future as the global reserve currency,” the Gold Paper read, “without compromising on freedom.” The Gold Paper was light on specifics about what World Liberty actually planned to do. Those in charge did not seem to know either. Around the time of the launch, Steve Witkoff, who was then listed as a co-founder of World Liberty along with his two sons, asked the venture capitalist Nic Carter to meet him at Pura Vida, the smoothie-and-sandwich chain, in Sunset Harbour in Miami. He wanted Carter to come onboard as an adviser but could not explain concepts fundamental to the business. “He didn’t know what crypto or DeFi was. He didn’t know what the pitch was,” recalls Carter. “I’m like, Oh, okay, so there’s no product. They’re just doing a token.” The biggest giveaway was when Witkoff explained that Trump had become interested in the crypto project because “Barron was getting active with meme coins” — but pronounced it “me-me” coins. What was important, Witkoff explained, was that they launch World Liberty before Trump was elected president again. “They needed Trump to be involved for launch as a private citizen,” says Carter. “They had to rush it out.” Carter, who voted for Trump in the election, declined the adviser position and warned that World Liberty risked damaging the candidate at the polls, given its credibility issues. That’s when Witkoff’s tone changed. “Then he, like, flips to try to bully me,” says Carter. “‘You don’t want to be on the big guy’s bad side.’” (World Liberty describes this characterization of the conversation as “inaccurate” and says the company “never formally offered Mr. Carter any such role.”) In those early days, World Liberty was desperate not just for big-name advisers to burnish its reputation but for start-up capital. It had set an initial fundraising goal of $289 million. Despite their affiliation with the likely next president, Herro and Folkman — World Liberty’s only executive officers and directors on initial securities filings — struggled to attract investors. By the end of October 2024, World Liberty had slashed its investment target by 90 percent to $30 million. Morten Christensen, a Dutch crypto investor living in Mexico, had been considering investing in World Liberty but decided the tepid interest from others was a bad sign. “For me, that was a red flag — Oh, never mind, they’re never going to raise enough,” he says. “In crypto, if it’s not popular, it’s not going to be popular.” Among investors, there were almost endless reasons to stay away. “Nothing about the project gave a semblance of legitimacy unless you’re delusional enough to see a Trump cash grab as legit,” says one longtime crypto investor who chose not to put in money. Elliot Omanson, a three-time Trump voter and crypto investor with a financial advisory firm in Kansas, says he was against World Liberty from the get-go. “Why would you want to create a vehicle that has all the appearances of corruption when you’re supposedly going in to fight the deep state and drain the swamp?” he says. “I hate crony capitalism more than I hate socialism or communism because it’s a corruption of my belief system.” Even the crypto venture fund Polychain Capital, which had brokered the introduction to Sun, ultimately declined to invest. “They weren’t raising any money for months. And it becomes a bit embarrassing for the Trump crew if literally the president, or the soon-to-be president at that point, isn’t able to raise any cash,” says the former World Liberty adviser. World Liberty’s founders hoped Sun could change that. Sun — specifically his wealth — had become an object of Herro’s fascination. On Logan Paul’s podcast in early 2021, Herro was asked if he had “fuck-you money.” He hesitated, recalling seeing Sun bid at an NFT auction. “I just watched that Justin Sun guy spend $69 million on the Beeple piece,” Herro answered. “Do you know what that made me feel like?” (Sun himself, it turned out, was narrowly outbid at the end of the auction.) Sun also had a reputation as a hustler. In creating the Tron blockchain, he simply copy-and-pasted code, without credit, from Ethereum, one of the original chains. Tron, launched in 2017, was still a massive hit. A year later, Sun and his company expanded their empire, buying BitTorrent, the site best known as a venue for sharing pirated movies and games, for $140 million in cash. In 2019, he won a lunch with Warren Buffett in a charity auction with a bid of $4.6 million. Soon, Sun was collecting works by Picasso and Warhol, which will eventually be displayed at a museum he is building in Hong Kong (tentative name: Justin Sun Museum). In 2021, he spent $28 million to secure a ticket to space on a Blue Origin rocket. That same year, he became Grenada’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization, after which he started using the title “His Excellency” on social media and at public appearances. (He continues to go by “H.E. Justin Sun” despite the fact that his diplomatic status was revoked in 2023.) Last year, Tron went public on the nasdaq, though it took a bit of a shortcut, bypassing an IPO by merging with an obscure, but publicly traded, company that makes souvenirs sold at Disney and other theme parks. And while Sun and his companies have had persistent legal controversies (and are notably litigious), he also holds the rare distinction of being one of the few original crypto founders who have never been to prison. Staying out of prison was likely on the mind of at least a few investors in World Liberty. Making a large investment in the project was widely seen as a play to curry favor with Trump. The project was upfront about the fact that 75 percent of net revenues would go to the president’s company DT Marks DEFI LLC (of which Trump owns 70 percent and family members own the rest). It was as though World Liberty had opened up a way to give money directly to Trump. Even in the profiteering world of crypto, an arrangement so lopsided, so nakedly self-dealing, was remarkable. ‘‘It’s unbelievable this guy scammed his way to the top.’’ Just five days before his initial investment of $30 million in World Liberty, Sun bought a banana duct-taped to a wall — a conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan — for $6.2 million in a Sotheby’s auction. Sun says he came across the work at random in the Sotheby’s catalogue and was surprised by the attention he received afterward. “I bought that just because I feel this art is kinda cool,” he says. “I bought other art pieces much more expensive than this banana before, but none of those became famous at all.” A few days later, after Sotheby’s advised him to throw the banana away, he ate it. “Why not? It’s still fresh,” he says. “Eating a banana is very common behavior.” Sun’s investment was big news in the financial press. CNBC’s headline was “Banana Auction Billionaire Invests in Trump’s Crypto Venture”; Bloomberg went with “Trump’s Crypto Project Was a Bust Till Justin Sun Stepped In.” Sun put in the additional $15 million after the heady round of press. By March 2025, World Liberty had raised $550 million. Sun in space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle in 2025. Photo: JustinSun Tron/YouTube As with many crypto projects, there were two kinds of stakeholders in World Liberty. Insiders had actual equity shares in the holding company. They are owners in the traditional sense, and operating profits flow to them. In January 2025, World Liberty sold a large equity stake in the company for $500 million to a firm associated with the United Arab Emirates’“spy sheikh,” Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, days ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Following the sale, the Trumps retained 38 percent ownership of World Liberty. (Herro and Folkman’s company and an entity owned by the Witkoffs held smaller stakes.) Outside investors, including Sun, received $WLFI crypto tokens. Their hope was that World Liberty’s projects and activities would raise the value of those tokens on crypto markets — that if World Liberty built a thriving crypto platform (with, for instance, innovative and potentially lucrative options for lending and borrowing $WLFI), that would create public demand, which, in turn, would drive up the price. But those links can be tenuous in crypto. $WLFI holders don’t own equity in the company or have a claim on profits — rather, they own the right to vote on some decisions for the project. ($WLFI is what is known as a governance token.) In practice, though, governance often amounts to no power at all. World Liberty told investors that the tokens’“sole utility” was voting rights — not trading. In a statement, the World Liberty spokesperson said, “$WLFI was sold as a governance token without transfer rights initially. And those who purchased $WLFI governance tokens understood there was never any expectation of profit from the holding of $WLFI.” But to Sun and other investors, it seemed like legalese to avoid breaking securities laws. “First of all, if it’s a crypto token, it’s going to be traded on chain whether they want it or not,” says Christensen, who decided to buy the World Liberty token in the first round after Sun came onboard. “It would make no sense for members of the public to pay any money for the tokens,” Sun wrote in his lawsuit, “if the tokens offered no economic upside.” It wasn’t long before several of the outside advisers to the project — a larger group of a dozen or so that, in addition to Sun, included a venture capitalist from Polychain, a pseudonymous cybersecurity specialist, and the head of a firm called the Crypto Lawyers — started to have concerns. The advisers had been in a Telegram group chat, but Folkman abruptly shut it down in late 2024, before they’d been able to offer their expertise to World Liberty. “They never asked for any of our advice,” says one former adviser. ‘‘World Liberty is trying to threaten me into silence.’’ Months went by, and the “financial revolution” World Liberty promised never materialized. Sun says he gave the World Liberty team ideas for products it could build, but no one followed through on any of them. “I started to notice what I believed to be red flags,” Sun says now. “They seemed to be interested only in raising money, not in developing actual products.” World Liberty did continue to raise money. In doing so, the company’s co-founders often dangled the possibility of a partnership, a deal, or a good word with the “big guy” to entice investors to put money in. It wasn’t exactly a quid pro quo. “More they were going out saying, ‘If you invest $11 million in us, we’ll invest $1 million back in your thing,’” says the former adviser. In March 2025, World Liberty announced plans for its first real product: a stablecoin to be known as USD1. This dovetailed with the genius Act, soon to be passed by Congress, which would bring stablecoins into the country’s regulated financial system. Each issued USD1 coin — a crypto token designed to always be worth exactly $1 — would be backed by a real dollar held by World Liberty. In other words, minting 100 million USD1 coins required $100 million in funds backing the coins. The real dollars would be invested in U.S. T-bills — short-term-debt notes from the federal government that currently pay between 3.5 and 4 percent interest. As of July 2026, there were 4.2 billion outstanding USD1 coins, penciling out to roughly $150 million in annual interest income. That money is almost pure profit. Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto billionaire, prepares to enter the White House in Washington, May 23, 2025. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) Sun heading to the White House in 2025. Photo: Jason Andrew/The New York Times/Redux The stablecoin business was a huge boon for insiders, creating a permanent dividend for the Trumps, the Witkoffs, Herro, and Folkman (and perhaps the Emiratis, though the terms of their ownership aren’t totally clear). But the stablecoin, as World Liberty elected to build it, was unlikely to meaningfully increase the value of the $WLFI token. Outside investors were left watching in frustration. World Liberty’s big bet on a stablecoin business made it clear to savvier $WLFI holders that there was no longer much incentive for the company to develop or launch other products, including ones that might profit regular $WLFI holders. “What’s the fucking point? Kick the can down the road. They’re making money,” says the former World Liberty adviser. Perhaps, the adviser tells me, a future Democratic administration would put an end to the scheme and a Democratic Congress would subpoena the players, but he doesn’t think that scenario is weighing heavily on the minds of the $WLFI executives. “They don’t care,” he says. “It doesn’t matter because they’ve had two-to-three years of making fat cash off the stablecoin treasury.” Meanwhile, the company still hadn’t released any $WLFI tokens, which meant the outside investors such as Sun who held them were still completely locked up. As 2025 wore on, Sun began to feel increasingly used by World Liberty, which was continually pushing him to put in more money. World Liberty executives “engaged in a sustained and escalating campaign to pressure Mr. Sun into committing hundreds of millions of dollars to mint USD1,” his lawsuit later alleged. They approached him at industry conferences and events, badgering him to commit $200 million to the treasury backing USD1, as well as to take an equity stake in World Liberty’s holding company. Sun said “no.”“There’s never enough,” says a person familiar with the situation. “How are you going to spend all the money you raise? This company keeps raising funds without building.” At the bitcoin conference in Las Vegas in May 2025, Zach Witkoff went to a celebratory dinner with Herro, Folkman, and other $WLFI associates at Wing Lei, a Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant at the Wynn. While Witkoff talked about his dad and his relationship with Trump — “The president loves me” — Herro and Folkman talked business, according to a veteran of the U.S. crypto industry who was in attendance. Herro pitched the group on a plan that he said would make World Liberty, and the dinner guests, “so much money,” says this person, who remembers being unimpressed by the idea. “Chase, you just get an awful feeling from this guy right from the beginning that this guy is out there to scheme and pull a fast one,” the person says. “I wouldn’t trust him with a penny.” Though it was never formally announced by the company, sometime around the summer of 2025, Witkoff was elevated to CEO of World Liberty. Before then, his most notable credentials, aside from jobs at his family’s firms, were speaking at the 2024 Republican National Convention and naming his firstborn son Don James Witkoff after the president. “I can’t think of a reason why he would be the CEO of a multimillion-dollar business,” says the former adviser, who adds that he believes Herro was the de facto leader. “When it comes just to raw intelligence, Chase has him beat hands down.” (“Zach Witkoff is the CEO, both in name and in reality,” said World Liberty’s spokesperson.) Last august, World Liberty announced that the $WLFI token would begin trading on the open market on September 1, 2025 — the crypto equivalent of an IPO. Investors would finally be able to turn their tokens into real money. A few days before the debut, Sun posted photos of himself with Eric Trump in Hong Kong, both smiling and giving thumbs-up. Sun with Eric Trump in 2025, shortly before $WLFI began trading publicly. Photo: Justin Sun/Instagram But in an unexpected move, World Liberty released only 20 percent of each investor’s tokens. “Great, now we can sell some, but what about the rest?” says Christensen, who has become an unofficial spokesman for thousands of disgruntled $WLFI investors. When trading opened, many worried holders rushed to sell what they could. After a quick initial spike, $WLFI’s price went into free fall. By the end of the day, $WLFI was down 40 percent. Sun claims he didn’t sell any of his tokens, but that he moved 56 million of them — about one percent of the 4 billion he owned overall — into other crypto wallets after the price fell, “meaning the transfer could not have been the cause of the decline.” Three days later, Sun says he woke up to find he was locked out of his entire World Liberty account. Even the 20 percent share that he should have been able to trade was gone, he alleges in his lawsuit. While his World Liberty tokens had been worth as much as $1 billion on paper, it was no longer clear that they were his. “My account got frozen completely,” he says. “I think I was in shock for a while. After all the trust and support I gave them, I couldn’t understand what happened.” It looked to Sun — who’d lost money in many a failed, hacked, or corrupt crypto project, from Mt. Gox to FTX — like a classic rug pull, cryptospeak for a scheme in which founders run off with their investors’ funds. “I was like, This is losing control, and I lost all confidence in the project.” Sun says he soon discovered that World Liberty had powers he was unaware of and a level of control that is unusual for decentralized blockchain projects. On August 24, eight days before trading went live, the company had pushed through a change in its “smart contract” — the algorithm that automatically executes token transactions — giving World Liberty the power to freeze, and effectively seize, any investor’s tokens without warning. “In the dark of night, the company thus created a ‘blacklisting’ function that it could wield at will,” Sun would later say in his lawsuit. Or as he put it in a post on X, “This is a trap door marketed as an open door.”

Why God Put Jews on Earth

For unmatched unique Genius like this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY&list=RD8Pa9x9fZBtY&start_radio=1 Free Palestine!!! PG PS - this kind of "Jew" is destroying ISRAEL and PALESTINE. Talk about GOOD vs EVIL... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/bibi-netanyahu-israel-failures-antisemitism/688050/

Elephant-Eared Bibi Fucks Up

Just watching this guy on TV turns my stomach; In 1982, Benjamin Netanyahu was the marketing director of a Jerusalem-based furniture maker when Israel’s ambassador in Washington decided that the 32-year-old had been pitching the wrong product. Instead of selling cupboards to Israelis, he should have been selling Israel to Americans. The ambassador, who met Netanyahu at a conference a few years earlier, brought him to Washington as his deputy. Almost instantly, Netanyahu became the face of Israel on American television—a fixture on Nightline and Larry King Live, pugnacious, eloquent in unaccented English acquired as a boy in the suburbs of Philadelphia. For the next four decades, through nearly every office he held, Netanyahu’s portfolio never changed: He was the guardian of Israel’s standing in America, a task he never delegated, since he believed that nobody understood it better than he did. And it is a task at which Netanyahu, as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has failed abjectly. Just over a decade ago, support for Israel was one of the last remaining bipartisan reflexes in American politics. The harshest thing most mainstream Democrats said about the country was that Netanyahu’s government was obstructing a two-state agreement with Palestinians. But in the years since the October 7 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza, that consensus, which was already losing ground among the Democratic rank and file, gave way. Two years ago, 19 senators in the Democratic caucus voted to block arms sales to Israel; this April, 40 out of 47 did—including most of the presidential aspirants within the caucus. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/bibi-netanyahu-israel-failures-antisemitism/688050/

Old CBC Bldg Offers New Biz Opps

The former CBC radio building in Corner Brook is located on Premier Drive and served as the longtime broadcast home for station CBY for 53 years until its final broadcast on October 19, 2012.History and OperationsBroadcasting Era: Operating for over five decades as a dedicated CBC-owned facility, CBY AM broadcast local programming and news to western Newfoundland from Premier Drive.Closure: Shut down following federal budget reductions in 2012, after which local operations moved into smaller studios at the Valley Mall.Ownership and Redevelopment ProposalsSale: The property was sold into private ownership following the 2012 relocation.Proposed Plans: Municipal rezoning applications were approved by the Corner Brook city council to shift the lot designation from community service to general commercial.Scope of Vision: Development proposals for the site outlined retrofitting the former CBC structure for commercial and health-focused uses (such as a walk-in clinic, pharmacy, gym, and restaurant) alongside adding a five-story residential apartment building targeted at adults aged 55 and older.If you would like, I can look into more recent municipal property status updates or provide information on CBY's broadcast history in western Newfoundland. Let me know how you'd like to proceed!

Only 1 Paper Mill Operating In Corner Brook

The last pulp and paper mill in Newfoundland and Labrador is partially operating again as of Tuesday after a significant shut down that started last fall due to extremely low water levels at Grand Lake. It was one of the longest shut downs in the Corner Brook mill's history. Kruger Inc, the mill's owner, indicated it would take weeks to ramp up operations, given the plant was shut during winter's coldest months. But local politicians believe this partial re-start is an indication of big changes in operations and jobs. One paper-making machine is running, on and off. "We will have some periods where we will run. Some work is then needed. That will stop operations, but that will continue to ramp as we go over the next couple of days," explained Darren Pelley, vice-president of special projects with Kruger Inc. Pelley said Kruger will monitor water levels and continue to make paper when possible. This is not the first time the mill has shut down operations in recent years. "This is a big blow to the city," said Eddie Joyce, the MHA for Humber-Bay of Islands. Joyce said the diversification plans will only include operating one of the two remaining paper machines inside the 100-year-old plant, which would be a direct loss of 72 jobs. "It's very concerning that they are going to build windmills, sell it to the power grid and there is going to be layoffs here in Corner Brook," he said. "I hope government steps in here with this and ensures anyone who is laid off will have a job." The provincial government has supported the mill for over a decade with a loan agreement made in 2014 worth $110 million. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/this-is-a-big-blow-to-the-city-only-one-paper-machine-operating-at-corner-brook-mill-after-major-shutdown-9.7093961

Corner Brook Store Closes

Hard times are forcing this store, a Corner Brook staple, to close seasonally Fox's General Store owner Michelle Payne says it wasn't an easy decision, but the financially responsible one Maddie Ryan · CBC News · Posted: May 17, 2026 6:00 AM NDT | Last Updated: May 17 After 16 years at the helm of the iconic Fox's General Store in Curling, Michelle Payne is switching to a seasonal model. For as long as owner Michelle Payne can remember, Fox’s General Store in Corner Brook has been a place for the community to gather. But hard economic times have forced her to reduce the beloved business’s hours. It hurts Payne to have to downsize the longstanding staple of the Curling area. “It's not really a choice that anybody in business really likes to make,” she said in an interview with CBC News. “But for sustainability purposes and to try to continue serving my community how I can…this is the decision that makes the most sense.” The store will close its doors on Sept. 30 before reopening next May. That sense of duty has guided Payne since she took over the business 16 years ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/foxs-general-store-seasonal-9.7198836

Putin Is A Jew

You just have to look at him and track his behaviour to know he is a Jew; Speaking from the protected command post, Putin underscored the strategic necessity of his submarine forces. “In the nuclear triad, the navy is of enormous importance,” Putin told his top officers. He added that submarine-launched intercontinental missiles exist to “inflict unacceptable damage in the event of direct aggression against Russia.” Also read Is Trump fit to serve? What the public and report from May says Trump shows ultimate disrespect for fallen soldiers: “No awareness. No respect” Putin further touted progress on the Poseidon—a nuclear-powered underwater drone—claiming it is nearing combat readiness. Kremlin-backed media has previously warned that the weapon could trigger devastating, radioactive tsunamis targeting British shores. Despite those aggressive threats, Russian naval forces continue to suffer heavy losses on the water. In the past month alone, Ukrainian forces have severely crippled Kremlin naval power, taking out over 200 Russian ships throughout the Black and Azov Seas, according to Daily Express,

RIP Cheapskate D. "P" Outhouse

I laugh everytime I encounterthis obituary about this dead cunt. DPA QC was a real cheapskate and his wife a Grade-A Bitch. He real name was D. "P" Outhouse btw. He was so cheap and stingy that despite being a MIlionaire Lawyer he would slurp his double-double Tim's Coffee and munch on his Apple-FRitter in an impoverished Law-Student's face in the Firm Law Library (just to try to get your Goat as they say on Newfondland). He even refused to agree to a $5,000 pay raise after I did an excellent job in Court which all the other Partners in the Firm agreed to thus boycotting the raise. Rather than take it up the ass from this cheap cunt I moved to Sweden and taught Law and obtained a Master's Degree and then lived in Hotels and worked for Fortune 500 Companies for 24 years obituary. This "Obituary" is total BS because anyone who knew DPA Q.C. was well aware he was a truly malevolent, cheap and evil fucker. Burn in Hell Old Cheapskate ... I hope your smoking corpse is lying on a mile-high bed of frozen Canadian pennies ... lol; PG ----------------- ALTHOUSE, DELMAR PAUL – It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Paul Althouse, 77, of Bedford, Nova Scotia on Saturday May 13th, 2023, at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax. Paul leaves behind to mourn his wife of 53 years, Ingrid (Lundrigan); four daughters, Susan, Paula (Colin Fitchett), Nancy, and Holly; two grandchildren, Brandon and Brett Graves; a sister, Nancy Heath (Dick); three sisters-in-law, Gudrid Hutchings, Sigrid Fitzpatrick (William), and Astrid Lundrigan Cohen; as well as Joseph Hutchings, Wayde Graves, Ian Hubbard, many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and his two beloved dogs, Adore and Whisper. Paul was predeceased by his parents Holland and Mildred (Thurber) Althouse, as well as Ingrid’s parents, Arthur and Ida Lundrigan. Paul grew up in Kentville, NS. Throughout his youth, he excelled at hockey, baseball, and debating, ultimately discovering his talent in both sport and speech. His hockey abilities led him to Cornell University where his team won the NCAA championship in 1967. Following his undergraduate studies, he attended Law School at Dalhousie University where he met the love of his life, Ingrid. After they married, he articled in St. John’s, NL before moving to Corner Brook where he practiced law for 36 years and was appointed Queen’s Counsel. As a partner at Poole Althouse, his career was built on loyalty and camaraderie as well as business. He was known for creating relationships grounded in mutual respect with colleagues, clients, and opposing counsel alike. Volunteering in Corner Brook was a large part of Paul’s life. He was Vice-Chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Youth Serving Agencies, Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Western Newfoundland, member of the Rotary Club, played with the Corner Brook Royals, and held various roles with the Corner Brook Hockey Association. He had a life-long love of sports and could often be found at the golf course, on the ski hill, or at the rink. Paul was also known for his gift of gab, telling great stories, and his genuine love of music. He was a natural entertainer and was always singing (some might say he missed his calling as a Broadway Tenor!). With a twinkle in his eye and the confidence to match, his laugh and smile brightened every room. No matter where he was or what he was doing, he loved being around people. This was evident by the lasting connections that he maintained throughout his life. With all that said, the most precious thing in Paul’s life – what he truly loved most of all - was his family. Above everything else, Paul was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. We will miss him dearly. Visitation is Thursday, May 18th, 2-5pm and the funeral service is Friday, May 19th, 2pm. Both are at JA Snow Funeral Home, 339 Lacewood Drive, Halifax. The family plans to have a Celebration of Life in Corner Brook at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA) or any charity of your choice.

Bio Post

More about (and how to contact / connect with) me to discuss, invest and/or participate in my Virtual and Real IslandProject in Newfoundland Canada: My real name is Kenneth Jackson (KJ) O'Brien. DOB 11.2.72 I have a BA (Hons), LL.B, LL.M and have taught Law at UNB and Stockhlm Facilty of Law I studied at Dalhousie University Halifax NS, have 2 Law Degrees a. University New Brunswick Bachelor if Laws, b. Master's of Law Stocholm Faculty of Law and am a Microsoft/TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect (of which there were less than 100 Worldwide when I was certified in 2004 - 22 years ago) Contacts email paymentguy@gmail.com fixed line home phone 1 709 388 6433 - I don't carry a mobile or smartphone atm because of seizures which have now subsided with medicaion and exercise and diet regimines Address - 24 Hillcrest Road Corner Brook NL, CANADA A2H 1N6 Family /Personal I have 2 children aged 20 & 22 who live in Helsinki Finland but am single atm (so if you are a good lookinhg woman and looking to date feel free to eail or phone me anytime lol ... I live in Western Newfoundland CANADA ATMs so PLEASE factor in my time differrent time-zone pls.. I have 30 yerars legal experience internationally in International law, IP Law, Contracts, M&A and am a Microsoft/TOGAF - Certified Enterprise Architect with specialization in Payment Systems online, offline, telco, cash and prepaid. I have worked directly for AND/OR CONSULTED such companies as 1. Microsft; 2. NOKIA; 3. Sonera Group; 4. Sulake/HABBO; 5. Linden Ladb/Second Life and have designed and built some of the largest International/Global Payment Networks for websites especially Virtual Worlds for Kids amd Gamers; 6. Benchmark Capital, 3i Investments and other Billioaire(s)-Wealth Funds who for privacy reasonI cannot disclose publically. Awards - I was the Moot-Court Winner and Assistant at UNB Law School for 3 yeras consecutively. My Team and I won the SCANDINAVIAN INTERACIVE MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS 1IN 1999. MY iq HAS BEEN tested to fall between 145 / 167.5 and I have been a member of Mensa and other High-IQ Clubs; Neurology - Like many with adbvanced intellects and hyper-acive mental functioning, I have experienced seizures, vision and motion sickness since childhood. Hwever, these conditions have abated now that I have a consistan treating Newuroligist and Medication/Lifestyle protocol, exercise schedule, diet and dailiy sleep/meditaion/relaxtion regimine; 8. Work Life / Employment Protocol - I am available to work remotely and 24/7 as a Consultant or Employee (Full or Part-Time) I have done both in the past. 9. Personal Life -I rarely sleep more than 4 hours per day or 24 hours per week when I am my Home Office I stick to a conventional 9-5 routine when working in a social envirnment(s); 10.Future Plans - I am looking to aquire a for sale Old Bingo Hall in Western Newfondland and turn it into the World's 1st Virtual World, Online Gaming, Offline Gaming and Social Networking Facility in the World (think of a Next Generation Arcade) for kds, teens, young adilts and Adults who enoy Gaming, social Networking and Technology. ATM I am seeking partners to aquire the Faciloity https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/25534400/34-broadway-corner-brook; 11. Personal - I am single atm and looking for a GF. I reside in my own fully-owned sans Mortgage (Mortgage means "slow death" in French btw...) 3 bedroom home woith home office. I collect Hard-Copy Auto-Biographies, Biogfraphies, Memoires (of which I have 1000+), steel H@O bottles (I currrently have 76) and like restoring, renovting and renting Old-Momes and apartments in my space-time. I would liketo expand my business and social networks so feel free contact me. Stay tuned. Over and out. PG PS:Per GOOGLE BLOGGER Stats I surpassed 1 MILLION Pageviews so I must have something interesting to say the last 16 years lol

Life Countdown

How would you live and what would you do if you only had 20 years left to live? PG

Mirror Obituary

I was freaked out when I GOOGLED myself and found this online; Obituary Overview Kenneth O'Brien KENNETH (KEN) O'BRIEN It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Kenneth “Ken” O'Brien, who was born February 11, 1952, in Ottawa and passed away at his home in Kingston on Saturday, February 21, 2026. He was 74. Ken was predeceased by his father, Richard, born in the United Kingdom, who passed when Ken was a teenager, and by his mother, Rachael (née Bell), who was born in Ontario and whose family farmed on Division Street in North Kingston for many years. He was also predeceased by his siblings Elizabeth Pattison (Robert) and Richard (Carolyn). Ken is survived by his sister, Marilyn (Tom) Reichert of British Columbia, and by his nieces and nephews: Tom Pattison, Pernell Reichert, Darin O’Brien, Sara (Reichert) Wiltse, and Jonathan Reichert. Ken was previously married to Lynne, who will miss him dearly. Ken was a longtime and dedicated employee of Bell Canada. He enjoyed the outdoors, was an avid boater for many years, and accrued many medals for running. Ken shared many happy years with his beloved dog and faithful companion, Jovi, whose constant presence brought him comfort and companionship. Quiet and intelligent by nature, Ken lived a more private life in his more recent years. He will be missed by his longtime friends Russ and Wendy Harrington, and Pete and Cheryl Dermann. In keeping with Ken’s wishes, cremation has taken place. Interment will occur in the spring at Cataraqui Cemetery. For those wishing, donations in Ken’s memory may be made to the University Hospital Kingston Foundation. Arrangements entrusted to Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home, Central Chapel. Sharing online condolences available at www.gftompkinscentral.ca

Russia's Nuclear Relevance

Would anyone care about Russia if they did not have Nukes and occassionally threaten to use them? Grand military celebrations often serve as a stage for world leaders looking to project unyielding power. Yet behind the dramatic speeches, security can quickly expose private fears. Russia recently marked its annual Navy Day under conditions that revealed deep Kremlin anxieties. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a stern warning regarding his country’s nuclear arsenal during a heavily restricted gathering in St. Petersburg. Instead of hosting the traditional naval parade along the Neva River, he addressed military commanders from a high-security bunker at the Admiralty, while also shutting down mobile internet connections across the entire city, Daily Express reports. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/putin-issues-nuclear-warnings-from-st-petersburg-bunker-during-restricted-navy-day/ar-AA28Mh7y?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=6a6736f35cbb4babb80608e1867d3088&ei=24 Nuclear triad warnings Speaking from the protected command post, Putin underscored the strategic necessity of his submarine forces. “In the nuclear triad, the navy is of enormous importance,” Putin told his top officers. He added that submarine-launched intercontinental missiles exist to “inflict unacceptable damage in the event of direct aggression against Russia.”

Nuking Iran

With the "War" not going so well, is Trump considering Nuking Iran? President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing the details of a "massive" new attack on Iran, but as two legal scholars warned for The Hill, his typical approach of threatening "apocalypse now, or in a few hours" is doomed to backfire once again. The Trump administration's much-hyped "memorandum of understanding" peace deal with Iran has imploded in recent weeks, putting the countries on another collision course for war. Amid reports that he is considering the options available to him and plotting an immense new round of airstrikes against Iran, Trump has also gone back to his previous tactic of threatening to target key civilian infrastructure, like bridges and power stations. Critics are also, once again, warning that such attacks would constitute war crimes. David Wippman is the emeritus president of Hamilton College, and Glenn C. Altschuler is the Emeritus Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Together, the pair of legal scholars published a new piece on Sunday for The Hill, in which they warned that this approach was doomed to backfire on Trump, even while admitting the escalation from military to civilian targets "is not unusual" in modern conflicts. While international law forbids the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure, certain targets, such as train lines or airports, can be "dual use," meaning they could also serve military needs. In that case, an army would need to show the "definite military advantage" of their strike to avoid repercussions. https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-2677272635/

Newfoundland Name Change

To legally change your name in Newfoundland and Labrador, you must submit an application to Vital Statistics, meet residency and age requirements, provide a criminal record check, and have the change published in the Newfoundland and Labrador Gazette. Eligibility Age: You must be 16 years or older to apply for your own name change. For children under 16, a parent or legal guardian must apply on their behalf. Residency: You must have been ordinarily resident in Newfoundland and Labrador for at least three months before applying. Marriage: If changing your surname due to marriage, you do not need to submit a Change of Name application; you can simply provide your Marriage Certificate. Required Documents Application Form: Complete the Application for Change of Name of an Adult or Application for Change of Name of a Child as appropriate. Birth Certificate: If born in Newfoundland and Labrador, submit your government-issued birth certificate. If born elsewhere in Canada, provide a government-issued birth certificate. If born outside Canada, provide certified copies of immigration or citizenship documents. Criminal Record Check: Obtain a certified criminal record check from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC), RCMP, or an approved organization such as the Commissionaires. The check must be dated within six months of your application. Identification: Provide copies of government-issued ID showing your current name and any evidence of being commonly known by the new name if applicable. Application Process Complete the Application: Fill out the appropriate form and include all required documents. Submit Payment: Pay the applicable fee via cheque, money order, or credit card (Visa or MasterCard) to the Newfoundland Exchequer Account. Publication: Your name change will be published in the Newfoundland and Labrador Gazette unless you request an exemption for privacy reasons. Court Involvement: A court application is only necessary if you need to dispense with required consent (e.g., from a parent or spouse) for the name change court.nl.ca. Additional Notes Children under 16: Consent from both parents may be required. If consent is not available, a court order may be needed Criminal Record Restrictions: Individuals on the National Sex Offender Registry cannot change their name www.novascotia.ca. Processing Time: Processing times vary; contact Vital Statistics for current timelines and guidance. Contact Information: Vital Statistics Division, Service NL, P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL A1B 4J6, Tel: (709) 729-3308, Email: vstats@gov.nl.ca Wiki Procedure Wiki Procedure . Following these steps ensures your legal name change is recognized for all official purposes, including updating your birth certificate, government IDs, and other records.

Macho Trump Mocks Frail Biden

Trump has repeatedly mocked Biden’s age and acuity and replaced his portrait along a White House colon to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief with an image of an autopen, a visual taunt built on the unsupported allegation that aides used the device used the device to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-shrinking-world-of-former-president-joe-biden/ar-AA28HIv6?ocid=BingNewsSerpnade

Joe Biden's Tiny Circle

Joe Biden’s world has grown smaller. Eighteen months after leaving the White House, the 83-year-old former president moves within a narrowed circle of relatives, old friends and longtime aides as he undergoes treatment for metastatic cancer. The treatment appears to be working, according to five former aides and others close to Biden, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss his health and private life. But the disease — and the toll of treating it — has left him visibly frail. Those around Biden describe a post-presidency constrained by illness with his days increasingly organized around treatment, family and efforts to shape his legacy. Unlike some recent predecessors, Biden has maintained a limited public schedule, has yet to build a sprawling philanthropic or policy operation and has struggled to raise money for a presidential library, leaving him with fewer avenues to influence how his presidency is remembered. That frailty is likely to become harder to keep private this fall, when Biden begins promoting a memoir scheduled for publication on Nov. 17, two weeks after the midterm elections. The timing has unsettled some friends and former advisers, who worry not only about Biden’s well-being, but also about how much his visible health struggle could revive the bitter arguments of 2024 just as Democrats are trying to make the election a referendum on President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly mocked Biden’s age and acuity and replaced his portrait along a White House colon to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-shrinking-world-of-former-president-joe-biden/ar-AA28HIv6?ocid=BingNewsSerpnade with an image of an autopen, a visual taunt built on the unsupported allegation that aides used the device used the device to exercise presidential authority for a debilitated commander in chief.

Eye Implants to Restor Sight

For someone with poor vision since childhood, like PG, this is a miracle; An eye implant that can help blind people see again is poised to hit the market — in Europe, at least. On Wednesday, the US-based Science Corporation announced that it had received approval from the European Union to treat patients with its vision-restoring bionic eye device, called Prima, in a huge step towards the commercialization of the technology. “We have a cochlear implant for vision now,” CEO Max Hodak told Stat News. Science Corp’s device is designed to treat advanced macular degeneration, a condition in the eye which causes central vision loss. It’s the leading cause of vision loss in older adults, with severe forms of it accounting for nearly 90 percent of legal blindness in the US, according to one estimate. To restore vision, the Prima device uses a wireless chip that’s surgically implanted under the retina. This connects with a pair of camera-equipped glasses, which transmits video in the form of near-infrared light that the chip turns into electrical signals interpreted by the brain. Science Corp first published the results of a preliminary clinical trial in late 2024, showing that patients who used the device were able to recognize faces again, and even read books. https://futurism.com/health-medicine/eye-implant-restores-vision-approved-sale

Financial Hardship Was Linked to Lower Brain Scores by Age 53

Interesting but obviously if you are poor you don't eat well, have a gym membership etc... or own and operate your own safe, have health care unless you live in Caada or Scandinavia, reside and live in a comfortable Home and exercise Household which trigger neuroogical stressors. People with more exposure to low income or financial strain scored lower on both memory and processing speed by age 53, years before most people start thinking about memory loss at all. The clearest differences showed up among those who’d faced hardship repeatedly rather than just once or twice, though the study wasn’t designed to prove a single rough patch is harmless either. Years later, at ages 69 to 71, brain scans told a related story: people with a history of persistent low income had noticeably larger fluid-filled spaces in the brain, the kind that grow as nearby tissue shrinks. Interestingly, people who already scored lower on memory tests at 53 didn’t decline much further afterward. Researchers think that’s not a hopeful sign so much as evidence the damage had, in a sense, already been done by midlife, leaving less room left to lose. Accounting for other possible explanations, like childhood intelligence, mental health history, and education, didn’t change the picture. That doesn’t prove hardship alone caused these differences, since money troubles are often tangled up with other stresses, but it rules out some of the more obvious alternatives. Men and APOE-ε4 Carriers Showed the Steepest Brain Changes A few groups appeared especially vulnerable, though these findings come from the smaller scan-based group and need to be confirmed by future research before anyone treats them as settled. Men with a history of low income scored worse on processing speed at 53, and men who’d faced repeated financial hardship showed faster signs of brain shrinkage than women with similar histories, though the memory-test gap itself was small. Among those with persistent low income as adults, people who’d also grown up in working-class or lower-income households showed faster shrinkage in the hippocampus, a brain region tied to memory. Separately, carriers of APOE-ε4, the most well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s, seemed to fare worst of all when they also faced persistent financial hardship, showing the highest average levels of amyloid buildup and faster brain shrinkage than people without that gene variant. Why would money trouble get under the skin this way? One theory researchers point to is that financial stress eats up mental bandwidth, the kind of constant background worry that leaves less attention for everything else, day after day, year after year. That idea hasn’t been directly tested here, and other factors this study didn’t examine, like heart health or job instability, could also be playing a role.

Big Tech’s Money Men Don’t Care About the Backlash

In the AI political universe, Zac Moffatt and Josh Vlasto are at the helm of the Death Star. As the top political operatives at Leading the Future, they oversee a network of pro-AI industry super PACs and nonprofits that friends and foes alike describe as an aggressive, well-funded machine attempting to obliterate their opponents much like the Star Wars superweapon. Their goal: to defeat candidates who support the strictest AI regulations and champion those who want to unleash the development of the industry. The PAC launched with over $100 million in the bank from some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, including $25 million checks from a16z’s co-founder Marc Andreessen and OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman. Moffatt and Vlasto are little known to the public, but they’re familiar figures in Washington and the world of political campaigns. They have decades of experience on the political battlefield and bring bipartisan bona fides; Moffatt’s a Republican, Vlasto’s a Democrat. And they’re now guiding one of the biggest pots of money flowing into the midterms. Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, is the biggest known donor in midterm politics so far this cycle, and its single largest chunk of cash has been directed to Leading the Future. How they choose to spend their mountain of money in the coming months and beyond is likely to have a major impact on the makeup of American government — and will determine how lawmakers grapple with a technology that has the potential to transform society and our way of life. Their record so far is formidable. Leading the Future’s political arms — American Mission, which has operated in Republican primaries, and Think Big, which has operated in Democratic ones — have sent money to 30 candidates, and only one of their picks has lost so far. They’ve spent almost $25 million and still have over $30 million in cash on hand, according to an FEC filing through June 30. Their latest primary victories came Tuesday, when their preferred candidates won House GOP and Democratic primary races in Arizona. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/07/26/ai-super-pac-operatives-profile-01008227

PG Monthly Views

Now @ 21,875 post views monthly & 2500 daily so on track for 75k post views per month and 900k post views this annum, 2026. TY, PG

Financial Hardship Linked to Lower IQ Scores by Age 53

Financial Hardship Was Linked to Lower Scores by Age 53 People with more exposure to low income or financial strain scored lower on both memory and processing speed by age 53, years before most people start thinking about memory loss at all. The clearest differences showed up among those who’d faced hardship repeatedly rather than just once or twice, though the study wasn’t designed to prove a single rough patch is harmless either. Years later, at ages 69 to 71, brain scans told a related story: people with a history of persistent low income had noticeably larger fluid-filled spaces in the brain, the kind that grow as nearby tissue shrinks. Interestingly, people who already scored lower on memory tests at 53 didn’t decline much further afterward. Researchers think that’s not a hopeful sign so much as evidence the damage had, in a sense, already been done by midlife, leaving less room left to lose. Accounting for other possible explanations, like childhood intelligence, mental health history, and education, didn’t change the picture. That doesn’t prove hardship alone caused these differences, since money troubles are often tangled up with other stresses, but it rules out some of the more obvious alternatives. Men and APOE-ε4 Carriers Showed the Steepest Brain Changes A few groups appeared especially vulnerable, though these findings come from the smaller scan-based group and need to be confirmed by future research before anyone treats them as settled. Men with a history of low income scored worse on processing speed at 53, and men who’d faced repeated financial hardship showed faster signs of brain shrinkage than women with similar histories, though the memory-test gap itself was small. Among those with persistent low income as adults, people who’d also grown up in working-class or lower-income households showed faster shrinkage in the hippocampus, a brain region tied to memory. Separately, carriers of APOE-ε4, the most well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s, seemed to fare worst of all when they also faced persistent financial hardship, showing the highest average levels of amyloid buildup and faster brain shrinkage than people without that gene variant. Why would money trouble get under the skin this way? One theory researchers point to is that financial stress eats up mental bandwidth, the kind of constant background worry that leaves less attention for everything else, day after day, year after year. That idea hasn’t been directly tested here, and other factors this study didn’t examine, like heart health or job instability, could also be playing a role. https://studyfinds.com/financial-hardship-memory-decline/

Financial Hardship Linked To Brain Shrinkage, Cognitive Decline

In A Nutshell A 70-year British study found that adults who repeatedly faced financial hardship scored lower on memory and processing-speed tests by age 53, years before most people worry about cognitive decline. Decades later, brain scans showed those with a history of persistent low income had larger fluid-filled spaces in the brain, a sign of tissue shrinkage. Men, people from working-class or lower-income childhoods, and carriers of the APOE-ε4 Alzheimer’s risk gene showed stronger brain changes, though these subgroup findings are still preliminary. The study only shows a link, not proof of cause, but researchers say chronic financial hardship may be a modifiable factor worth addressing for long-term brain health. https://studyfinds.com/financial-hardship-memory-decline/ Researchers followed a group of British adults from birth through their early 70s. Those who experienced financial hardship at multiple points tended to score lower on memory and mental-speed tests by middle age. Later in life, brain scans showed a pattern consistent with tissue loss in certain regions. For a few smaller groups, including men and people carrying a particular Alzheimer’s-linked gene, the pattern looked even stronger, though those pieces of the puzzle are still tentative. Published in the journal Innovation in Aging, the study draws on data from the 1946 British birth cohort, a landmark project that has tracked thousands of people born in a single week in March 1946. With decades of financial records and repeated cognitive testing, researchers had a rare chance to see how money troubles that stretch across a lifetime relate to brain health, rather than relying on a single snapshot. Nearly 3,000 People Were Tracked From Birth Through Their 70s Researchers drew on two groups within the cohort. The main group, 2,759 people who were still alive at 69, took cognitive tests at ages 53, 63, and 69. A smaller group of about 400 people also came in for brain scans between ages 69 and 74. Money trouble was tracked two ways: whether household income fell into the bottom fifth of the group at ages 26, 43, and 53, and whether people said they struggled to cover basic needs at ages 36, 43, and 53. Anyone who hit either mark at two or more checkpoints was labeled as having faced it persistently, which didn’t necessarily mean an unbroken decade of poverty, just hardship that kept resurfacing. To measure mental sharpness, participants took a timed letter-search test for processing speed and a word-recall test for memory. Brain scans measured the physical size of different regions, including the fluid-filled chambers that expand as surrounding tissue shrinks. A smaller subset also had their brains checked for amyloid, a sticky protein tied to Alzheimer’s, though that piece applied only to people carrying a specific gene variant, not everyone in the study.

American Grocery Prices Hit Historic High

Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she grabs the weekly circular to look for coupons she might have missed. If the shelf prices look too high, she scratches items off her list or tries to find lower prices someplace else. “The apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now I’m not going to get them here. I’ll go to Market Basket, where I can get them cheaper,” Jack, 50, said as she pushed a cart into a Stop & Shop near her home in Lexington, Massachusetts. Couponing, comparison shopping and cutting back on favorite foods are new habits for her and millions of other Americans as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century. Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7 1/2 years before that, prices rose 6.4%. https://apnews.com/article/grocery-shopping-prices-food-affordability-8468c1d6532ca762bbcfa17e3c7707d1 The historic increase happened for numerous reasons. The coronavirus pandemic snarled supply chains and raised labor and transportation costs. Droughts, hurricanes and diseases like bird flu drove down production. Tariffs raised prices on foreign products like coffee, tomatoes and chocolate. Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine disrupted oil and fertilizer supplies. With a fresh conflict in the Middle East accelerating food price inflation again this year, the cost of filling their refrigerators, freezers and pantries has become a frustration for Americans and made affordability a central issue in the fall midterm elections.

Cheating Lawyer Caught

In New York with a 25 year old no less.. lol https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16002639/lawyers-kissing-video-central-park-wachtell-partner-associate.html

Billionaire Profile

Smart and {very} rich Swede; Johan Brenner is a high-net-worth individual based in Palo Alto, California. He primarily invests in technology and growth companies. Currently, Johan is a General Partner with Creandum in Stockholm. His prior experience includes time at Balderton Capital (previously Benchmark Europe) working with investments such as LiveBookings, Habbo Hotel, Rebtel, Zopa and others. https://www.forbes.com/profile/johan-brenner/ PG

Sunday Pageviews By Browser - 666

Interesting # of pageviews by browser on Firefox, is this significant? Firefox 666 @ 7:30pm Sunday NL Canada Time. Hmmmmmmmmmmm .... PG

America Running Out of Missiles

The war between the United States and Iran remained on pause for a second straight day on Sunday, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that there had been some movement in talks between Tehran and mediators over the Strait of Hormuz. No U.S. strikes on Iran have been reported since Friday, while Iran has similarly held off attacking American allies around the Middle East after about two weeks of skirmishes brought the two countries back to the brink of full-blown war. President Trump decided last week to put off plans to escalate the U.S. assault on Iran, at least for now, according to U.S. officials. Mr. Trump and his aides were motivated in part by dwindling stockpiles of interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. Mr. Trump has struggled to decisively end the war on Iran that the United States and Israel started jointly five months ago, even as the global economic toll and number of American casualties have mounted. A cease-fire signed last month effectively collapsed after Iran continued to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway for global oil and gas shipments. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Two weeks of American bombing runs on southern Iran have failed to break the deadlock over the strait. Before the war, ships could freely travel through the waterway — but Tehran has since effectively blocked transit, throttling global energy markets and increasing the pressure on Mr. Trump to end the war. Esmaeil Baghaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that officials from the Gulf sultanate of Oman, which abuts the Strait of Hormuz, visited Tehran over the weekend for talks about the waterway. Oman has occasionally served as a mediator between Iran and the United States. “These talks were useful, and progress was achieved,” Mr. Baghaei said in remarks carried by state media, though he offered no further details. Even as parts of the Middle East experienced their first quiet nights in weeks, at least one front remained open, in Yemen. Over the past week, the Iran-backed Houthis, who control significant parts of Yemen, have engaged in their biggest escalation since 2022 with the U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia. Last week, the Houthis declared a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea and fired on passing ships they said were linked to the kingdom, their northern neighbor. The Houthis can effectively close another naval choke point — the Bab al-Mandab Strait — which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and is another of the world’s most important shipping routes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/world/middleeast/us-iran-war-pause.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0lA.jWmZ.HHUyOP4qhqfI&smid=url-share

What's A Better Investment, Condos or Apartments?

A condo is a better direct investment than an apartment because you own the property to build equity and earn resale profit. In contrast, a traditional individual apartment cannot be bought as an investment to own—you can only rent it out if you own the entire multi-family apartment building. Comparing the Options Condos (As a Unit Buyer)Ownership: You buy and own your specific indoor unit.Equity: Your monthly mortgage payments build long-term personal wealth.Fees: You must pay monthly condo or homeowner association (HOA) fees for shared upkeep, which can rise over time.Control: A condo board makes community rules and can restrict leasing out your unit to renters. Apartments (As an Entire Building Investor) Ownership: You buy a multi-family property containing multiple rental units. Income: Generates strong, steady cash flow from multiple tenant rents at once. Control: You have 100% control over management, rules, and maintenance choices without a board. Cost: Requires a massive upfront capital investment compared to buying a single condo. PG

Condos vs Apartments

condo/ˈkänˌdō/A condo (short for condominium) is a private housing unit inside a larger building or community where you own your specific space and share ownership of the outdoor areas and facilities. How Ownership WorksYour unit: You own the inside of your home (the walls, floors, and rooms).Shared spaces: You share ownership of the hallways, elevators, gym, pool, and yard with your neighbors. Association fees: You pay monthly money to a group (the condo board) that cleans, fixes, and takes care of the shared spaces and outside building. Condo vs. Apartment Condo: You buy and own the home yourself, or you rent it from a private owner who bought it. Apartment: You rent the home from a company that owns the whole building

(Humber) "Elementary my dear Watson"

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Elementary my dear Watson’? In fact the line doesn’t appear in the Conan Doyle books, only later in Sherlock Holmes’ films. One of the best known phrases that Sherlock Holmes never said. He does come rather close at a few of points. Holmes says “Elementary” in ‘The Crooked Man’, and “It was very superficial, my dear Watson, I assure you” in ‘The Cardboard Box’. He also says “Exactly, my dear Watson, in three different stories. The phrase was first used by P. G. Wodehouse, in Psmith Journalist, 1915. Fewer students mean fewer schools are needed in Corner Brook. The English School District is closing St. Gerard's Elementary and Humber Elementary in June and students at those two schools will transfer to the former G.C. Rowe school building. It's going to be a really nice K to 6 building with lots of space. - Eugene May The school district says the number of students in Corner Brook schools has declined over the years, and is projected to drop even further. "Declining enrolment is certainly a big piece," said assistant director of education, Eugene May. "But also wanting students to be in excellent facilities." The English School District says enrolment at schools like St. Gerard's has been dropping. (Twitter/NLESDCA) Right now, said May, St. Gerard's has about 110 students and Humber Elementary has about 360 who will move together to the old junior high. "That's a building that's designed for considerably more than that, so it's going to be a really nice K to 6 building with lots of space, and we're really excited about this." Cut down to size May said G.C. Rowe, a former junior high, is in the process of being completely transformed to be suitable and safe for elementary age students. "New lighting, new ceiling, new flooring," said May. "So basically all the classrooms were stripped back to the concrete, and it's going to be completely new classrooms." Eugene May is acting assistant director of education for the English School District operations in western Newfoundland. (CBC) Washrooms, as well, have been remodelled so that toilets and sinks are at the appropriate height for children 12 and younger. Other areas of the building, such as stairways and the school's old stage, are being brought up to code for use as an elementary school. May said the level of the stage was previously five feet above the gymnasium floor, and is being cutting down to a safer three-foot height. Gymnasium change rooms that were previously located under the stage, in the school basement, have been moved to what is considered a more appropriate location just off the gym. "When students go into this building in September, they're going to see a state-of-the-art, new, large elementary school with all the modern conveniences that you would expect to have." Other changes depend on money May said staff and school councils from St. Gerard's and Humber Elementary were briefed on the details Thursday during meetings with school district officials. Information on planning and timelines will be sent home to parents in the coming days. "Both school councils will be working together to merge these two school communities into one school community. There's going to be activities occurring throughout the year to start that process." The first day of school in September 2016. Next fall, these students will head to a new school. (Twitter/Humberelem) The school board decision to close the two schools actually took place in June 2009, but the process to make it a reality has taken longer than expected. Humber E and St. G were closed 3,454 days (or 3,455 days if you include both the start and end dates) between February 9, 2017 and today (July 26, 2026). So 9 years, 5 months, and 17 days. humbercondos.com

North Carolina Woman Vanishes

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16005451/elizabeth-waddell-north-carolina-grenada-missing-caribbean.html The wife of a North Carolina parks manager has vanished without a trace while on a trip to the Caribbean. Elizabeth 'Liz' Waddell, 44, was last seen at Grand Anse Beach in Saint George's, the capital of Grenada, on Wednesday, the Royal Grenada Police Force said. Police have not released any information about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

Living In An Abandoned Gas Station

Fascinating Life of Kyrsten Lea Sinema (/ˈkɪərstən ˈsɪnəmə/ KEER-stən SIN-ə-mə; born July 12, 1976)[1] is an American politician, lawyer, and former social worker who served from 2019 to 2025 as a United States senator from Arizona. A former member of the Democratic Party, Sinema became an independent in December 2022.; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrsten_Sinema#Career Early life and education Sinema was born in Tucson, Arizona,[8][9] on July 12, 1976,[10] to Marilyn (Wiley) and Dan Sinema.[11][12] She has an older brother and younger sister.[13][14] Her father was an attorney. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and her mother, who had custody of the children, remarried. With her siblings, mother, and stepfather, Sinema moved to DeFuniak Springs, Florida, a small town on the Panhandle.[14] Although she later became the only religiously unaffiliated member of the U.S. Senate,[15] Sinema was raised as a Mormon (LDS Church).[16] Sinema has said that when her stepfather lost his job and the bank foreclosed on their home, the family lived for three years in an abandoned gas station[17] and that for two years they had no toilet or electricity while living there.[18] She later recalled: "My stepdad built a bunkbed for me and my sister. We separated our bunkbed from the kitchen with one of those big chalkboards on rollers. I knew that was weird. A chalkboard shouldn't be a wall. A kitchen should have running water."[18] According to journalist Jonathan Martin in The New York Times, Sinema has given "contradictory answers about her early life," and her mother and stepfather have filed court documents saying they had made monthly payments for gas, electricity, and phone bills, even though Sinema had said they had been "without running water or electricity".[19] Asked whether she had embellished details from her childhood, Sinema said, "I've shared what I remember from my childhood. I know what I lived through."[19]

Ukraine War Could End Today

Kremlin spokesperson said that during today's meeting between representatives of the two countries, Vladimir Putin gave Tokayev a detailed briefing on the course of the war. Asked how Putin reacted to Tokayev's proposal to freeze the war, Peskov said such a move would be impossible until Russia achieves its objectives. He added that the fighting could stop as early as today if Ukraine made certain decisions. "The freeze of the conflict in Ukraine proposed by Tokayev is impossible given Kyiv's stance. Russia's main condition is achievement of its goals. Everything could stop today, before the end of the day, if the Kyiv regime makes the appropriate decisions," Peskov noted. Background Earlier today, Kazakh president Tokayev told Putin that many parties had approached him regarding mediation efforts, prompting him to propose freezing the war and returning to the Istanbul 2.0 talks, which he said had produced significant results. Tokayev also echoed several narratives aligned with Moscow rhetoric. In particular, he described Ukrainians and Russians as brotherly peoples and claimed that the current war is benefiting Russia's adversaries. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/moscow-responds-after-kazakh-president-tokayev-urges-putin-to-freeze-war/ar-AA28Gdfz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=6a66229688d6422b86305815296dfc2f&ei=13

Ugly Jews Crawl Out of The Woodwork

Even this Hmoo-Jew who looks like a RealLife Paedo if I ever saw one keeps his info private. Clever. You cannot find anything on public wretches like Marshall Cohen of CNN https://factsbio.com/marshall-cohen/ Talk about "instincive aversion to Jews" (guess who coined that phrase in Mein Kampf...). Just seeing this guy appear on CNN makes me cringe and my stomach churn. www.cnn.com/profiles/marshall-cohen Has anyone noticed how nowadays even the UHGLIEST OF UGLY Jews are no longer laying low like Cohen? Better watch out for that "handsome" Jewish SNAKE Jared Kushner... He is lurking in the Wings of The White House to run for office as America's 1st Jew-President. Trump wants him in office so that he gets pardoned from all the crimnal-liability he faces. JewMerica here we are... PG

Pentagon Covers Up Casualty Count

The defence department has not held a press briefing for two and a half months. Officials have faced accusations that they are engaged in a cover-up designed to hide the true cost of Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, fearing a public backlash before November’s midterm elections. Panetta, who held weekly Pentagon briefings during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, criticised the department for failing to disclose how many people had been hurt in bomb attacks by Iran on US bases. “There’s a deliberate effort here to basically withhold information from the American people, and I think it represents in many ways a shameful approach to sharing the responsibility that we all have when it comes to fighting a war,” he said by phone. A fragile ceasefire between the ​US and Iran collapsed earlier this month and both ​sides have been carrying out daily strikes against each other, prompting fears of a quagmire and a betrayal of Trump’s campaign promise to eschew “forever wars”. The number of US troops killed in the war on Iran ​rose to 18 last weekend, while ‌roughly 430 US troops ​have been injured. The Pentagon said on ​Monday that 100 service members had been injured since 7 July but that 96% had returned to duty. The department initially failed to disclose the figures, according to a New York Times newspaper report, only belatedly acknowledging the casualties in a social media post. Officials dismissed the Times’ article as “baseless and malicious” and contend that they are not strictly required to publicise injuries if service members are expected to return to duty. But questions intensified when another Times report said the Pentagon’s website had lowered the number of troop deaths from 18 to 14; Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, blamed “a temporary data disruption”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/pentagon-iran-war-casualties-cover-up

ISRAEL Brings America Down

The viscious Israeli Jews are fucking up America. It shows in every worn-out and haggard Trump appearance with that smirking learing Elephant-Eared Israeli midget PM Bibi Netanyahu. I can only imagine what leverage Jews have ammassed on Trump-Family and Co. over the years. Even that skinny learing snake Jared Kushner is lurking in the wings to be America's 1st Jewish President. Sad.... PG

Stupidest Commercial Ever

Does anyone agree that this "GovX" Commercial with UFC Fighter Stipe Milocic is the lamest commercial ever? PG even wants to punch him in the face when I see this dumb ad. PG

10,000+ More Monthly Summer-Views

@ the moment PG's Blog is 10,000 more views more popular in this month of July, than in past June. TY readers. PG

PG's Blog Count

So far my blog is 8677 views ahead of last month with 5 days to go. Stay tuned. Would love to start hitting 30k views monthly. PG

Does AA Suck?

IMO Yes. By adhering to AA you trade one addiction - alcohol - for another - AA. Not for me. And most of the attendees are "washed-up" on-edge losers. Check what this American says about AA. If you want to drink, drink in moderation and according to a social schedule and within limits. PG PS: July 25, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET When Kylie Corbitt got out of a 30-day addiction treatment center, a familiar problem was waiting outside. “My entire network was all people who used,” she said. “I didn’t even know what it meant to be truly sober.” Her methamphetamine use had intensified slowly during the Covid-19 pandemic, as she lost a job she had held for a decade, grieved the death of the grandmother who helped raise her and grappled with depression. With little structure to her days, each one felt like “Groundhog Day,” Ms. Corbitt said; she would tell herself that she’d get high one last time and then seek help. “And it just never ended,” she added. Treatment interrupted this cycle, but her life wasn’t set up to support her sobriety. Ms. Corbitt, who is 37 and lives in Milton, Mass., tried Alcoholics Anonymous but struggled to feel a sense of fellowship, finding some meetings “a little judgy.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/well/sober-clubs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.BWpV.0iKfNyGiC-iB&smid=url-share

PG's Annual Expenses

I once worked with an intelligent American who was a BIllionaire Investment Banker in California at one of the World's largest VC Funds. I advised him and his olleagues on investing in Children's Internet opportunities. He consistently said to me over a few beers; "It's not what you earn, it's what you spend..." Keeping my expenses in check I can live off of a lot less than I used to earn per year; 1. Housing, Rent, Mortgage - own your own house. It's the best investment you will make. I own my own house on 24 HIllcrest Road Corner Brook Nl, Canada a2h 1n6. I also own (lease as you cannot technially / legally "own" an island in Canada on Sabdy Lake Newfoundland that I nicknamed www.newfoundisland.com. I also like the name Howley Island. So owning my own house saves me up to $2k / month or at least $12k year in rent/mortgage; 2. Food/Eating - I eat frugally and rarely dine out so compared to my sister who has 3 adult male children who live at home plus a work-from home Husband, I save about $1k month or $12k year; 3. Entertainment - reading, blogging, online-dating hot international chicks, fitness, internet and nature-walks are my primary forms of distraction so I have minimal social or enetertaining costs and having travelled all over the world living in high-end Hotels for companies like NOKIA, Microsoft, SULAKE, SONERA Grooup and others, I am not overly-motivated to travel outside of Newfoundland atm. People who travel spend at least $5k year on travel; 4. Drugs/Alcohol - I was a former Federal Drug Prosecutor in my 20's and have NEVER used drugs either legal or illegaly so that is not a cost to me and as a tee-totaler (once in a while a few beers maybe...) I am not spending $20-$30/day on alcohol which many of my social and professional contacts do which averages $650-$750/month or $6k-10k year; 5. Family - my kids are adults now and I am a single Bacelor so no "Family expenses" atm. My sister by comarison has 4 adult-aged men living at home with only 1 working a summer job as a construction-site flag man so "Family-Costs" are zero compared to my sister's whhch are exhorbitant (ie; very high) averaging $1k per month or $12k year; 6. Vehicle - I don't own a vehicle or drive at the moment so save on vehicle costs like gas, servicing and purchase (say $500/month) so at least $5k year; 7. Employment; I don't need to dressup or travel to and from work so say I save $2k year here; Bottom Line: Living frugally, soberly, singally as a bachelor while working from home saves me $50-55k year. PG

Can Rock Climbing, Weight Lifting and Free Lattes Keep People Sober?

July 25, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET When Kylie Corbitt got out of a 30-day addiction treatment center, a familiar problem was waiting outside. “My entire network was all people who used,” she said. “I didn’t even know what it meant to be truly sober.” Her methamphetamine use had intensified slowly during the Covid-19 pandemic, as she lost a job she had held for a decade, grieved the death of the grandmother who helped raise her and grappled with depression. With little structure to her days, each one felt like “Groundhog Day,” Ms. Corbitt said; she would tell herself that she’d get high one last time and then seek help. “And it just never ended,” she added. Treatment interrupted this cycle, but her life wasn’t set up to support her sobriety. Ms. Corbitt, who is 37 and lives in Milton, Mass., tried Alcoholics Anonymous but struggled to feel a sense of fellowship, finding some meetings “a little judgy.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/well/sober-clubs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.BWpV.0iKfNyGiC-iB&smid=url-share