Billionaire Investor Bessent Bets on ‘Trump Rally’ in Stock Market Before Election, Big Boom if Trump Wins https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/9e9c40af199094b4016880278ea3d8383caf0234f61da915c829d9bee4d8b45f/files/1706880556903-YAKIHONNES3.jpg
Scott Bessent, a billionaire investor, expects the stock market to continue to rally whenever former President Donald Trump leads Democrat President Joe Biden in general election polling. If Trump beats Biden in November, Bessent expects a huge and long-sustained boom in the market.
In an 18-page memo to investors sent on Wednesday, Bessent and his management team at Key Square Capital Management LLC—a top investment firm—laid out what he calls an ongoing “Trump rally” in the markets as investors expect Trump to topple Biden in November of this year.
Canadian 'poison killer' Kenneth Law to head straight to trial
The case of a Canadian man accused of supplying a poisonous chemical to people who died by suicide will head straight to trial, an Ontario court has decided.
Prosecutors have also upgraded the charges against Kenneth Law from second-degree to first-degree murder.
Mr Law may have sent more than 1,200 parcels containing lethal substances to around 40 countries, including the UK.
He made his latest court appearance on Thursday.
Mr Law, a 57-year-old former chef from Toronto, is facing a total of 14 first-degree murder charges, as well as 14 counts of aiding and counselling suicide, for a total of 28 charges.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68176391
Wolves 3-4 Man Utd: Kobbie Mainoo continues rise to stardom with 'dream' winning goal
His first Premier League goal was a 97th-minute winner for his childhood club to seal a 4-3 victory. No wonder Kobbie Mainoo was grinning ear to ear.
"It is a dream come true," the 18-year-old Manchester United midfielder told TNT Sports, following his winner in a Premier League classic against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68176430
Happy Grundsaudaag! The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day
You say Groundhog Day, I say Grundsaudaag: how German and Swiss settlers in Pennsylvania created a new language – and a much-loved American holiday.
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Every 2 February since at least 1886, people have been gathering in the Pennsylvanian town of Punxsutawney to watch a groundhog – a furry rodent – crawl out of a hole after its winter sleep. If the day is sunny and the groundhog sees its own shadow, there will be six more weeks of cold weather, according to legend – but if it's a cloudy day, and there is no shadow, spring has arrived. Across the US, the quirky tradition is known as Groundhog Day. But among its original celebrants, it has a different name: Grundsaudaag.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240131-how-the-pennsylvania-dutch-created-groundhog-day
The Courts Have Caught Up to Canadian Government Overreach
Canada’s Federal Court has ruled that the government’s response to the 2022 trucker protest violated the law. But will Canadians care?
Governments everywhere did many absurd and unaccountable things during the Covid pandemic, but one, at least, is now being held accountable by the courts. In Canada, the Federal Court has ruled that the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF), a Calgary-based public-interest organization that alongside other civil-liberty groups mounted a legal challenge against the use of the Emergencies Act, called the Federal Court decision “a complete repudiation of the government’s position and a massive political humiliation for the Liberals” and “extremely gratifying for Canadians
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/the-courts-have-caught-up-to-canadian-government-overreach/
Terror By Night: Who Pays The Price For Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do...
Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose.
Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise.
Barely ten seconds later, someone or an army of someones has crashed through your front door.
The intruders are in your home.
Your heart begins racing. Your stomach is tied in knots. The adrenaline is pumping through you.
You’re not just afraid. You’re terrified.
Desperate to protect yourself and your loved ones from whatever threat has invaded your home, you scramble to lay hold of something—anything—that you might use in self-defense. It might be a flashlight, a baseball bat, or that licensed and registered gun you thought you’d never need.
Majority Of Germans Reject Left-Liberal Government's Radical Immigration Law
A majority of Germans oppose the government’s radical immigration law, which will allow up to 2.5 million foreigners to obtain German citizenship in time for the federal election in 2025.
UK could recognize Palestinian state before any deal with Israel, says David Cameron
U.K.’s top diplomat says recognition “can’t come at the start of the process, but it doesn’t have to be the very end of the process.”
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