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rn a woman, but there's just tons of coincidental things that sort of suggest she wasn't. So I don't know what the truth is there, but I'd go 60 40 that the evidence is not conclusive, but we'll see. Maybe we'll know at some point. Rasmussen did a poll on whether people trust the New York Times. What percent of likely US voters said they had quote a lot of trust in news coverage from the New York…

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everywhere before stabilizing the region and eventually handing leadership off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas.

Well, can you think of anything that would be a different plan from that that might work? I can't. You know, you don't have to be in favor of it or against it. You can simply say, what the hell else are they going to do? Like, what else would they do? I can't think of anything. So as plans go, it looks like the most workable plan of all the plans that aren't workable. I wouldn't bet it's going to be successful, but it's better than anything else.

Well, India and China are trying to restore their economic links and friendliness. It's been a problem since the 2020 border clash. But it looks like Modi might need to put a little pressure on Trump by saying, well, you know, if we don't get everything we want with our tariffs, etc., we might have to get a little closer to China. And you wouldn't want that, would you? So looks like Modi is playing a clever game in which he's improving things with China, but it puts a little pressure on the US and our tariff game. So we'll see where that goes.

Well, the AI company called Perplexity has offered to buy the Chrome browser from Google because Google's got this antitrust case going on. And part of the antitrust case is that they might be asked to sell off some of their assets that are non-competitive like Chrome. Non-competitive meaning too competitive. They have too much of the market. And Perplexity is of

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fering to buy it for about twice the value of all of Perplexity. So there is some thinking that they could get backing to do that deal and then Perplexity would own Chrome. I wouldn't bet that that's going to happen, but it might happen. Could be a big deal. And then you probably know that the Golden Dome is being planned and implemented and that would protect the United States from incoming miss…

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