Author: nick

Ufology: Withering on the Vine

Myth Busting & Debunking

Eighty years of the same campfire story, and how a myth quietly became folklore In 1950, a retired Marine Corps major named Donald Keyhoe published The Flying Saucers Are Real and, with it, authored the operating system that ufology still runs on three-quarters of a century later. The claim was never simply that strange things are seen in the sky; people have reported that since antiquity. Keyhoe’s contribution was the second half, the one that holds the whole story up: that the United States government knows what those things are, that the answer is extraterrestrial, and that it is being…

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Central Banks Change Their Minds on “Safe Haven” Assets

Conspiracy Theories

We tend to use the word “safe” as though it has only one meaning. But a life jacket won’t put out a kitchen fire. A smoke detector won’t help much during a flood. They are all safety equipment – they simply address different dangers. The concept of “financial safety” works the same way. In one sense, there’s no such thing as “financial safety” at all. Just varying types and levels of risk. An asset can be stable in price, but vulnerable to inflation. Easy to sell, but dependent on another institution’s promise to pay. It can carry almost zero default…

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Driscoll, Army Secretary and Staunch Vance Ally, to Depart Admin

Media Bias

Daniel P. Driscoll, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Army, is poised to leave the administration by the end of 2026, several outlets report.  Driscoll is a former Yale Law School student and longtime friend of Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance. At the nadir of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s perceived stock in Washington, Driscoll was widely tipped as a possible — if not likely — successor.  The Hill claimed Driscoll had been in a “months-long turf war” with Hegseth. But if anything, the palace politics at the Pentagon had seemingly cooled for much of 2026. …

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