{"id":879,"date":"2026-04-22T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyokal.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:53:00","slug":"something-sinister-what-we-know-about-the-fbis-investigation-into-the-deaths-and-disappearances-of-scientists-involved-in-the-space-and-military-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyokal.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Something sinister&#8217;: What we know about the FBI&#8217;s investigation into the deaths and disappearances of scientists involved in the space and military industries |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Crude oil rose to $98 per barrel this morning from $95 the day before. S&#038;P 500 futures rose 0.52% in early New York trading. Yesterday, the index closed 0.63% lower at 7,064. Asia almost rose today. Europe was flat in early trading. Bitcoin remains stuck at $74,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>Many banks have raised their price targets for the S&#038;P 500.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>Wells Fargo: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWe continue to expect [the S&amp;P 500] &#8220;It will overshoot to 7,300 by July, driven by AI monetization, spending from OBBBA, and the World Cup. But the World Cup is probably the last exciting event of the year,&#8221; according to Ohsung Kwon and others. &#8220;Sell the World Cup,&#8221; he told clients.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>Goldman Sachs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8220;We expect the S&#038;P 500 to rise 7% toward our year-end target of 7,600,&#8221; Ben Snyder said in a recent note.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>JP Morgan:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    Dubravko Lakos Bujas and his team also set a new price target of $7,600. However, &#8220;if geopolitical tensions come to a quick resolution (a &#8216;blue sky&#8217; scenario), we would&#8230;expect the S&#038;P 500 level to be around 8,000.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">from chart <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">TradingEconomics.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>There&#8217;s one big thing<\/h3>\n<h2><b>&#8216;Something sinister&#8217;: FBI plans to investigate dead and missing scientists<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Two of them just disappeared. One was found shot to death on the front porch of his home earlier this year. Three of them left home without their mobile phones. Two of them took off with handguns. But officials say they were all connected to the military space industry. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The FBI said: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">luck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Catherine Gioino<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;The FBI is leading the effort to find connections to the missing and deceased scientists. We are working with the Department of Energy, the Department of the Army, and our state and local law enforcement partners to find answers,&#8221; said House of Representatives Committee Chairman James Comer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Iran<\/h3>\n<h2><b>Ceasefire extended, but peace talks stalled as White House officials expressed dissatisfaction with Trump&#8217;s social media comments<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>A truce, something like:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    president trump <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">extended the ceasefire<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    Relations with Iran are indefinite, but the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Two ships in the strait were shelled by Iranian forces. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">this morning<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">one of the vessels, a Greek container ship, sustained significant damage to its bridge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The story is boring. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The ceasefire extension is aimed at allowing Iran&#8217;s fractured regime to reunite and organize a negotiating position. So many Tehran officials have been killed that it is really difficult for the remaining leaders to understand what the government&#8217;s position should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>JD Vance is <\/b><b><i>do not have<\/i><\/b><b>    still flying to pakistan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    for scheduled talks. &#8220;Here in Islamabad, arrangements are in place for another round of talks, with parts of the city still under lockdown. But for now, hopes for talks to take place this week seem to have faded.&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">BBC says<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Speaking anonymously,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    Some White House officials say the president&#8217;s continued Truth social posts, many of which contradict previous posts, are hampering negotiations. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">luck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Jake Angelo reports<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What President Trump Said Yesterday<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight:400\">on social media<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">: &#8220;Iran doesn&#8217;t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 million a day (so if it&#8217;s closed, they&#8217;ll lose!). They only want it closed because I&#8217;m completely closed (closed!) and they just want to &#8220;save face.&#8221; Four days ago, people came up to me and said, &#8220;Sir, Iran wants to open the Strait immediately.&#8221; But if we do that, there will never be a deal with Iran unless we blow up the rest of Iran, including their leaders! \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>War is a boon for oil companies.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    The closure of the strait means oil companies are scrambling to find new sources of supply outside the United States and the Middle East. Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller said activity is likely to increase in Africa and South America. &#8220;We are already seeing early signs of recovery in North America. Outside of the Middle East, we expect our international business to grow.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">luck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Jordan Blum details<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>  \ud83e\udd14 Straits theory: Is Trump&#8217;s real target China, not Iran?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why President Trump is willing to risk the inevitable unpopularity of opting for war with Iran, and then suffer the negative consequences of rising petrol prices and declining poll ratings, Macquarie analysts Thierry Wisman and Gareth Berry have a theory for you: control every maritime pinch point through which China&#8217;s imports and exports pass. In their own words:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;Perhaps the economic war was part of a broader geostrategic plan aimed at giving the United States protection to control the Straits. [of Hormuz] indefinitely,\u201d they wrote in the memo. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">luck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cControlling Hormuz shares a common cause with recent US attempts to control other important &#8216;Straits&#8217;, such as Gibraltar, Malacca, the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap (GIUK), and Panama. The country&#8217;s long-term &#8220;goal&#8221; may be to thwart Chinese hegemony by controlling all the physical nodes on which the Chinese economy depends for its logistics.To that goal, lower oil prices are of secondary importance.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>david zaslav<\/h3>\n<h2><b>CEO doesn&#8217;t want $550 million exit package<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance merger shareholder vote will take place on Thursday, April 23rd at 10 a.m. ET. There&#8217;s been some discussion about this, my <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">luck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    My colleague Amanda Gelt told me that WBD investor David Geffen is making a deal with WBD, even though WBD CEO David Zaslav is likely to walk away with more than $550 million. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">he would rather work<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Fortune details<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The housing affordability crisis isn&#8217;t just squeezing millennials, it&#8217;s also crowding out buyers in their 40s, 50s, and beyond.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Sean Tully<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The board insists that leadership of the AI \u200b\u200bstrategy is in the hands of executives. executives disagree<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Amanda Gelt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Meet the film school dropout who became a billionaire quantum computing CEO in days thanks to Nvidia<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Sasha Rogelberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">CEOs of Fortune 500 companies say craving for work-life balance is a big red flag and, like Barack Obama, are willing to work weekends<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Oriana Rosa Royle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Palantir releases mini-manifesto, calls some cultures &#8220;toxic and half-baked&#8221; and says Silicon Valley has a &#8220;moral debt&#8221; to the United States<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>today&#8217;s chart<\/h3>\n<h2><b>There is a cap on the number of people who want to use cryptocurrencies<\/b><\/h2>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4469972 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 509'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-152011.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/hyokal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776860227_242_Something-sinister-What-we-know-about-the-FBIs-investigation-into.png 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/hyokal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776860227_242_Something-sinister-What-we-know-about-the-FBIs-investigation-into.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">According to a study by Deutsche Bank&#8217;s Marion Labour and Camila Siazon, as the price of Bitcoin plummeted from late last year to January, the proportion of consumers using Bitcoin fell. Recently, however, adoption rates have increased again. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\"><b>Big picture: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Over the past few years, adoption rates have remained roughly flat, rarely exceeding 12%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>number of the day<\/h3>\n<h2>212<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Polls show that Democrats are expected to gain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections, compared to just 205 seats for Republicans. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">270towin.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    Christopher Hodge, Chief U.S. Economist at Natixis CIB. But the data shows that Democrats will not take control of the Senate, giving Republicans a 46-51 edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Today&#8217;s top page<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It is unclear whether Apple&#8217;s new CEO John Tarnas is 50 or 51 years old<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    -F.T.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos model is being accessed by unauthorized users<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    -Bloomberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Singapore&#8217;s foreign minister warns that Hormuz Island is just a &#8216;dry run&#8217; if China and the US go to war in the Pacific<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    -CNBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">SpaceX approaches deal with Cursor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; Axios<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It&#8217;s OK to have no peace plan: Why wartime markets keep rising<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    -WSJ<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Tucker Carlson says he&#8217;s &#8216;struggling&#8217; with past support for Trump<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">    &#8211; now<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>One more thing<\/h3>\n<h2><b>Unintended consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? More expensive condoms.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Malaysia&#8217;s Karex, the world&#8217;s largest condom producer, has announced that it will raise prices by up to 30% due to supply chain disruptions caused by the Iran war. Because the customer&#8217;s inventory is lower than usual, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">CEO Goh Mia Kiat told Reuters.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. Entire industries across Asia are grappling with reduced supplies of plastics and other petrochemical-based products, from packaging to clothing. There is a shortage of plastic bags in Taiwan. South Korea is concerned that hospitals are hoarding syringes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#sinister #FBIs #investigation #deaths #disappearances #scientists #involved #space #military #industries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil rose to $98 per barrel this morning from $95 the day before. S&#038;P 500 futures rose 0.52% in early New York trading. Yesterday, the index closed 0.63% lower at 7,064. Asia almost rose today. Europe was flat in early trading. Bitcoin remains stuck at $74,000. 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