Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said last week that he supported the humanitarian blockade in Gaza after an appeal from a World Health Organization official to get Tel Aviv to allow the flow of aid into the destroyed enclave.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
As the old saying goes, “round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows.” It’s a spinning wheel and President Donald Trump is the spin master.
THIS IS FINANCIAL EUGENICS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
It’s a con job. A show. A game rigged at every level. What’s the Endgame? Collapse the dollar. Digitize the currency. Enforce programmable money with expiry dates, surveillance, and social scoring.
THE 19 RICHEST U.S. FAMILIES TOOK IN ANOTHER $1 TRILLION IN 2024
Last year, the 19 richest American families—one one-hundred-thousandth of one percent of the population (0.00001 percent)—enriched themselves by an additional $1 trillion, a sum exceeding the Swiss national GDP, according to an analysis from the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley.
AN AI IMAGINES ‘HUMAN ASPIRATIONS’ IN THE AGE OF AI ASCENDANCE, PART ONE
In this two-part article, we present a recent conversation with xAI’s advanced Grok3 generative AI chatbot, concerning some of the issues in our related reporting from this issue, “SPEEDING THE ‘PROGRESS’ OF HUMAN REPLACISM.”
RFK JR. AIMS TO REMOVE ARTIFICIAL FOOD DYES IN THE U.S.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, announced last week his plan to phase out food coloring in the U.S. after studies have linked these synthetic dyes to health issues.
NEARLY 1,000 GAZAN CHILDREN LOST A LIMB DURING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Saturday that nearly 1,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one limb amid Israel’s genocide that shows no signs of slowing.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
When Donald Trump won the race to the White House back in November, there were high expectations that the equity markets would spike, the value of the dollar would rise and it would be high times for the Merger and Acquisition Gang.
SPOTLIGHT: LUXURY INDUSTRY’S PROSPECTS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE
Just when Donald Trump’s new tariffs are undercutting luxury industry revenues, a weak dollar and record gold prices are making things even worse.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Last week, Donald Trump raised the prospect that his slate of custom-tailored tariffs on more than 100 countries could be reimposed sooner than the early July deadline he set when he suspended the tariffs a day after announcing them.
The Israel War
YEMEN DEATH TOLL
The U.S. military killed at least 250 people in over 800 attacks in Yemen since 15 March when Houthi fighters renewed their attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea to respond to the ongoing Washington-backed genocide and starvation campaign in Gaza.
GAZA DEATH TOLL
Israel has killed at least 52,243 Gazans and injured 117,639 since October 2023 as it tightens its grip on the enclave.
NEARLY 1,000 GAZAN CHILDREN LOST A LIMB DURING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Saturday that nearly 1,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one limb amid Israel’s genocide that shows no signs of slowing.
Trends in AI
GOOGLE’S AI IS TRANSLATING DOLPHINS’ LANGUAGE
Scientists have long known that dolphins have their own language. However, despite decades of effort, no one has a good understanding of what those clicks, squeaks, and whistles mean.
TARIFFS WILL BOOST AI’S POWER BILL
Donald Trump has painted himself as a champion of AI, but his tariffs threaten to add even more cost to processing your AI prompts.
OPENAI SLASHES TIME SPENT CHECKING AI’S SAFETY
OpenAI staffers and independent evaluators recently were given a relatively few days—in some cases less than a week—to assess the newest model’s risks and performance, eight people inside the process recently told the Financial Times.
Hi-Tech Science
TEXTURED TILES PROTECT COASTLINES, FOSTER MARINE LIFE
Levees and seawalls defend coastlines from storm waves, erosion, and rising tides but often the 10-foot-tall procession of concrete slabs destroys shoreline ecosystems and the marine life that depends on them.
HACKERS’ NEXT TARGET: YOUR DNA
Newly emerging DNA sequencing techniques are creating customized medicines, diagnosing disease risks, and tracking infectious diseases.
BALD NO MORE: BODY’S OWN SUGAR SPARKS NEW HAIR GROWTH
With baldness visiting a third or more of men at some point in their lives, Big Pharma has been laboring to find lucrative treatments.
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