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The US-Iran war dominated the week, with the Strait of Hormuz closure sending shockwaves through energy markets, global shipping, and food supply chains — and raising serious questions about insider trading ahead of Trump's announcements. Meanwhile, the Treasury quietly declared the US insolvent, Congress continued ceding power to the White House, and a fatal runway collision at LaGuardia exposed deep cracks in American aviation safety.
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“An Iranian official told Fars News Agency, which is aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that there is 'no direct or indirect contact with Trump'.”
“He warned that the cessation of the strikes was 'subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.'”
“Gas prices have surged to an average of $4.00 a gallon nationwide up from $2.90 before the conflict began three weeks ago.”
“Iran responded by ignoring Trump's deadline, vowing to strike water and energy facilities in the Middle East.”
6 Logical Fallacies Detected“'If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!' Trump wrote.”
“'The United States has blown Iran off of the map, and yet their lightweight analyst, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals. Yes I have, and weeks ahead of schedule!' Trump wrote.”
“'The United States has blown Iran off of the map, and yet their lightweight analyst, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals. Yes I have, and weeks ahead of schedule!' Trump wrote.”
“But Trump's triumphant tone stands in sharp contrast to a series of mixed and sometimes conflicting signals emerging from his administration about the trajectory of the war with Iran which is now entering its fourth week.”
“About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the outset of the war with Iran and it is still exporting millions of barrels of oil at a time when the waterway has been effectively closed, according to maritime and trade data platforms”
“'If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!' Trump wrote.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“That is not because the world would physically run out of oil after three months, but because the political and macroeconomic costs for vulnerable importers would likely intensify well before reserves were exhausted.”
“If America and its partners can restore commercially credible traffic through the strait, the economic peak of the crisis may pass even if the conflict continues in other forms.”
“In a long disruption, the binding issue is not just crude supply, but diesel, shipping insurance, transport costs and the credibility of replenishment.”
“In practice, the economically manageable window is probably closer to one to three months than to six months or more.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“Then a few minutes later, US President Donald Trump made a Truth Social post [...] The S&P 500 futures market surged and crude oil prices dropped through the floor.”
“Today's future market trades are not the first time eyebrows have been raised at suspicious bets before a Trump decision.”
“The White House does not tolerate any administration official illegally profiteering off of insider knowledge, and any implication that officials are engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting," Kush Desai told FT.”
“Meanwhile on Polymarket, 150 accounts bet more than a million dollars that the US would strike Iran the next day. And in January, a Polymarket user made about $570,000 betting that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would be out of office before the end of the month.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“said Ben Yorke, formerly a researcher with CoinTelegraph, now building an AI trading platform called Starchild”
““Typically, when you see wallet-splitting and deliberate attempts to obfuscate identity, it’s one of two scenarios: either a very large investor trying to shield their position from market impact, or insider trading,” said Yorke.”
“Timely bets laid this year suggest insiders may be using them to profit from secret information, such as Trump’s plans to kidnap the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, or the timing of US-Israel attacks on Iran.”
“Polymarket, whose investors include a venture capital firm owned by Donald Trump Jr, has faced criticism and regulatory scrutiny over potentially facilitating war profiteering and insider trading.”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“We are talking about something that is entirely demonic. Mr. Smith, this is the government calling, and we know you have three children. We want one of them transgendered. You can choose which one, but if you don’t transgender one of them, we will turn off your money.”
“You take the Covid shot or we turn your money off. Programmable money is spatial control as well. If we went to a 15-minute city, your programmable money would not work outside the 15-minute city.”
“Financial Tsunami Coming Because of Programmable Money.”
“Iran war could impede fertilizer production. CAF says, “We could see enormous dislocations in the food market with supply chains and prices going up.”
“If you don’t transgender one of them, we will turn off your money.”
3 Logical Fallacies Detected“Major Central Bank urges adults to keep 1 week's worth of cash at home for food, medicine to prepare for worst-case of war”
“to prepare for worst-case of war”
“what should you do?”
3 Logical Fallacies Detected“Claims that election night hand counts are the only way to confirm election outcomes”
“If adopted, election night hand counts would lead to even more distrust in election outcomes when election results become delayed.”
“Eliminating vote counting machines for election night hand counts impacts everything from understaffed and underfunded election budgets”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“The source of the nation’s voting machines has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers, whether foreign or domestic, might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system.”
“The source of the nation’s voting machines has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers, whether foreign or domestic, might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system.”
“Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies”
“NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said”
“Virtually no laws govern the cybersecurity aspects of voting machine technologies”
6 Logical Fallacies Detected“Michael Chertoff and Grover Norquist, Washington Post, February 14, 2018.”
“As machines age, essential parts like memory cards and touch screens fail...”
“Only three states mandate post-election audits to provide a high-level of confidence in the accuracy of the final vote tally.”
“Sherry Poland, Director of Elections of Hamilton County, Ohio, told the Brennan Center”
“There are currently three bipartisan pieces of legislation being considered on Capitol Hill...”
“older machines are more likely to use outdated software like Windows 2000...”
2 Logical Fallacies Detected“Jackson Curtis, currently an insurance underwriting assistant, is seeking to switch careers in response to the possibility of AI taking over his role.”
“Curtis, who lives outside Tacoma, Wash., fears that artificial intelligence is coming for his office job, which mostly involves data entry. And he thinks rising up the career ladder would still leave him vulnerable.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“Significant disruptions to the global oil supply chain have in the past been alleviated by the release of oil stockpiles held by members of the International Energy Agency (IEA)”
“Australia is among 32 member states that signed an IEA treaty in the 1970s following Middle East oil shocks, committing to maintain 90 days of the previous year's net oil imports.”
“Australia imports about 90 per cent of its oil, meaning a heavy reliance on the fuel coming through the Strait of Hormuz.”
“The government maintains that panic buying is driving the perceived fuel shortages in Australia.”
2 Logical Fallacies Detected“Justice Samuel Alito suggested that in defending the law, Mississippi faced “a variety of line-drawing problems” – the idea that the state’s position, if taken to its logical conclusion, could lead to extreme and (at least in Alito’s view) undesirable outcomes.”
“Paul Clement, representing the challengers, countered that when Congress initially passed the law establishing the Tuesday after the first Monday in November as “Election Day,” the casting of ballots and the state’s receipt of ballots were “so inextricably intertwined” that “no one would have thought of one without the other” – supporting his argument that a ballot is final (and the election therefore occurs) when it is received by election officials.”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“James Czerniawski, the head of emerging technology policy at the Consumer Choice Center, said, “Well this is a massive development! Good! A clean reauth[orization] should never have been the ask.”
“One question that’s never been addressed is the extent to which the FISA Section 702 program may violate the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. When Americans buy a Glock pistol, a Beretta shotgun, or a box of Czech-made Sellier & Bellot ammunition at their local gun store, they likely assume the transaction is between them, the dealer, and perhaps the ATF’s background check system.”
“What they almost certainly don’t know is that the business communications underpinning that entire supply chain—every email, phone call, and text between US importers and their foreign suppliers—is almost certainly being vacuumed up and stored under the Section 702 program.”
““The law simply has not kept pace with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. We should all share the fear that powerful AI makes it possible to conduct invasive surveillance at unprecedented scale, and that these tools pose serious risks to our fundamental liberties,” the letter stated.”
“A poll sponsored by Demand Progress and conducted by Data for Progress in early March said that 37 percent of voters, including a plurality of voters, and a plurality of 41 percent of Republicans think FISA should only be reauthorized with restrictions on law enforcement purchasing personal data through data brokers.”
6 Logical Fallacies Detected“THE LIES OF ROBERT MUELLER AND HIS CRIMINAL GANG”
“I was ultimately reinstated on X (formerly Twitter), as well as establishing a healthy following on Truth Social, finally affording me the opportunity to layout the facts.”
“The Judge granted their motion. Those who actually followed my legal lynching in a DC Courtroom would also know the Judge denied my defense attorney a sealed report from the private company Crowdstrike, retained by the DNC, that supposedly contained proof of this Russian hack.”
“Given their role in directing the silencing of pro-Trump voices on Twitter we now see why.”
“Even if he was a Russian hacker, my limited exchange with him provides no evidence that we coordinated or colluded in any way.”
“The idea that I was “covering up for Donald Trump” as the Judge said in her sentencing tirade against me is false. There was nothing to cover up.”
7 Logical Fallacies Detected“With Socialist Leader Biden about to ignite a war with Iran to keep Antarctica secrets hidden,”
“Biden Ignites War With Iran Over Antarctica Alien Secrets”
“An outright war with Iran would be extremely dangerous, very deadly, potentially very expensive, and highly disruptive economically.”
“Iran has the ability to rain ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones, on U.S. and allied interests across the Persian Gulf and beyond.”
“President Trump declaring: � The drone attack on a U.S. Military Installation in Jordan, killing 3 American Servicemembers, and wounding many more, marks a horrible day for America...”
“To date, this report notes, Russia has the largest presence in Antarctica and will soon be joined by the Islamic Republic of Iran”
“Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden issued the threatening statement: � Last night, three U.S. service members were killed, and many wounded”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“The Miami-based company, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel”
“Palantir’s technology is used by the Israeli military and in the US president’s ICE immigration crackdown, leading to leftwing MPs in the House of Commons last month to call it a “highly questionable” and “ghastly” company.”
“Once Palantir understands how we detect money-laundering threats, how do we know that they are ethically reliable enough not to go to share that information?”
“Many innocent people will be caught up in that and the data may contain bank account details, email addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information.”
“Prof Michael Levi, an internationally recognised expert in money laundering at Cardiff University, said there was “serious under-exploitation” of data held by financial regulators, so AI is a potentially valuable technology to tackle financial crimes.”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“Decades ago, the locals were complaining just as they are now, but in recent years the demographics have changed dramatically and with this change comes the inevitable increase in random criminal violence.”
“With the demographic being pushed out of traditional getaways like Miami Beach due to higher fees and restrictions, they have surged into alternatives like Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach. This has led to skyrocketing crime and essentially unusable tourist spots.”
“Daytona has been forced to declare a state of emergency and implement sweeping restrictions including a youth curfew from 8pm to 6am and zero-tolerance enforcement for violence, fighting, disorderly conduct, etc.”
“Florida cities are no longer embracing the concept of "grinning and bearing" this kind of tourist influx in exchange for quick cash. The new regulations and fees also prove that cities are capable, to some extent, of filtering out the worst perpetrators of seasonal crime.”
“The first step to eliminating mindless mobs is to stop enabling mindless mobs.”
2 Logical Fallacies Detected“Chauvin retained physicians at the Forensic Panel who will testify that the physicians who testified at his trial used methodology that "is not generally accepted in the scientific community."”
“Chauvin also disputed testimony from three Minneapolis police supervisors , who swore the tactic of placing a knee on a suspect’s neck as a restraint was inconsistent with city police policy.”
7 Logical Fallacies Detected“Thiel is inarticulate and uncharismatic. His florid arguments have the architecture of a conspiracy theory”
“to preach in favor of a capitalism that murders democracy.”
“points to Thiel’s early investment in Facebook as an effort to create “a device designed to amplify and monetize mimetic desire on a planetary scale.””
“The priest hits Thiel for weaponizing René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire”
“Paolo Benanti, a priest who has advised Pope Francis and Pope Leo on AI and tech ethics, called out Thiel as a “political theologian”
“It would be much wiser for Thiel to pipe down and enjoy the fruits of Trump’s lucrative fascism in strategic silence. He is saying too much”
“Silicon Valley’s plan to weaponize religion in a war against democracy.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“UN Secretary General António Guterres reiterated his call for countries to move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy to deliver climate security, energy security and national security.”
“Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key climate indicator is flashing red, he warned, in a typically punchy video address.”
“A temporary cooling from the natural La Niña weather pattern meant that 2025 was not quite as hot as 2024 , which was boosted by the opposite El Niño phase .”
“While scientists are still working out exactly why the Earth has accumulated so much extra heat over the past decade or so, they have no doubt that heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are the root cause of the imbalance.”
4 Logical Fallacies Detected“‘A dear friend to Charlie’... ‘He will be greatly missed.’”
“He had amazing drive. I was overwhelmed with his maturity, his intelligence. He just had so many incredible leadership qualities.”
“he was able to bring those young people from around the country together and they discovered other people felt like they did”
“Webb attended the ceremony where Kirk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
5 Logical Fallacies Detected“I can only assume that whoever was in charge of predicting call volumes had recent suffered a traumatic brain injury”
“And yet, somewhere, someone decided that customer experience was good enough.”
“There's an oft told story about Jeff Bezos pausing a meeting to call his own customer service number - and waiting over 10 minutes for an answer.”
“I recently cancelled a subscription to a small start-up's service. Someone from their senior leadership team asked if they could call to chat about why I cancelled.”
“At no point did they ever say "Our metrics don't show a problem" or "Do people really care about that?"”
6 Logical Fallacies Detected“Behind a veil of secrecy, these mysterious individuals began to communicate with the dead, probe the mysteries of dreams, and seek to harness the power of alchemy.”
“Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt (1798) fed a craze for all things “Oriental,” and Gébelin’s tall tale gave Tarot a backstory as mysterious as a Sphinx riddle.”
“Tarot’s origins aren’t just a history lesson. They’re a reminder that meaning is made, not inherent.”
“Etteilla’s deck, crammed with astrological symbols and reversed meanings, turned Tarot into a mirror of the soul.”
“Philosophers, revolutionaries, and social climbers sip absinthe while debating the “secrets of the ancients.””
“By the 14th century, decks with suits like swords, cups, coins, and polo sticks—borrowed from Mamluk Egypt—entertained nobles and merchants alike.”
