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December 19, 2023

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PRO-GENOCIDE TRUMP SANCTIONS ICC JUDGES OVER ARREST WARRANT FOR NETANYAHU

The Trump administration last week imposed sanctions on four judges from the International Criminal Court over their decision to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his previous defense minister, Yoav Gallant, based on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

HEIL MERZ: GERMANY WILL KEEP PUMPING ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS

Germany announced last week that it will continue to provide Israel with weapons, despite earlier criticism from its new conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said last month that Tel Aviv’s actions in Gaza “can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism.”

FED’S BEIGE BOOK TAKES ON A DARKER SHADE

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book, a collection of anecdotes and snapshots of business conditions around the country, shows......

THE FINAL 7 STAGES… AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME.

Let’s start with this… The Systemic ROT is Worsening. OCEANS of easy money, QE, ZIRP, NIRP, vast credit/debt expansion has already poisoned the global economy for years. This is not an opinion, it’s a fact.

CONGRESSMAN WANTS ‘FREE PALESTINE’ SLOGAN TO BE LABELED AS ANTISEMITIC

Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., in response to the recent attack in Boulder that left 15 injured, introduced a resolution last week that labels the slogan “Free Palestine” as antisemitic stating it calls for the “destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.”

ISRAEL’S WILLFUL IMPEDIMENT OF FOOD ACCESS IN GAZA MAY CONSTITUTE A WAR CRIME: UN’S TURK

Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, said last week that Israel’s continued effort to prevent food from reaching Palestinians trapped inside Gaza may constitute a war crime.

WASTE OF MONEY: EU TO FORM JOINT PROGRAM TO DEVELOP FIGHTER JETS IN SHIFT FROM U.S.

The European Union (EU) announced last week that it will form a joint program to develop a new fighter jet—in part—so it is less reliant on the U.S. as these countries seek to become more self-sufficient amid what they see as a growing threat from Russia and China.

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARRESTED IN NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON RETAIL THEFT

More than 100 jurisdictions in the U.S. took part in a two-day nationwide operation to crack down on shoplifting, which resulted in hundreds of arrests in over two dozen states that participated in the “Shoplifting Blitz.”

AS FORECAST, PRES. TRUMP DEMANDS FED LOWER INTEREST RATES

As we had long forecast, President Trump will keep pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. After the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May—more than expected—Donald Trump took to social media to demand that the U.S. Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jerome Powell lower the central bank’s interest rate.

“GODFATHER OF AI” SAYS NEW MODELS ARE DEVIOUS AND DANGEROUS

Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning computer scientist regarded by many as a founder and godfather of AI, says developers are racing to build bigger models faster and, as a result, their newest versions are showing dangerous behaviors.

U.S. MANUFACTURING SLOWS FURTHER IN MAY

U.S. factories’ output diminished a little more last month as manufacturers hesitated to make commitments amid Donald Trump’s swirling trade policies, The Wall Street Journal reported.

ISRAEL SHOOTS DOWN PROPOSAL FROM LEBANON TO END IDF AIR STRIKES, BEIRUT SAYS

The Israeli government last week refused a proposal from the Lebanese army that would allow the IDF to inspect locations in Beirut’s suburbs but said Tel Aviv refused the plan, which was floated a day after massive strikes on the city’s suburbs, which were called the most extensive since the November ceasefire.

IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO DEFEND PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL’S ‘SAVAGERY’

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, called on Islamic countries in the Middle East to come together to defend the Palestinians in Gaza and restrain Israel’s Zionist regime from continuing “these barbaric actions” inside the enclave.

SPOTLIGHT: U.S. ECONOMIC BRIEFS

As expected, U.S. factories received fewer new orders in April after customers surged their inventories in March to beat Donald Trump’s 2 April “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.

META WILL AUTOMATE ALL ADS BY 2027

Meta Platforms has announced it will automate all advertising on its various social media venues before the end of next year.

TRUMP’S GENOCIDE: U.S. VETOES UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION DEMANDING GAZA CEASEFIRE

The U.S. vetoed a draft resolution in the UN Security Council last week that demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that called the conditions inside the enclave “catastrophic,” requiring all humanitarian restrictions to be lifted.

ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

Again and again, for all to see, and all to wonder, “Round and round and round it goes, where it......

THE FINAL CHESS MOVE

Just this past Friday, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of the Wall St. Superbank JP Morgan made THIS statement: “We Will Have a Global Restructuring.”

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McMANSIONS DAYS ARE OVER, NEW STARTER HOMES ARE SMALLER BUT NOT THAT CHEAP

Remember the days back in the late 90s and early 2000s when Baby Boomers were moving into big homes, many mass-produced? Those days are over. Now, with income levels declining, those who can afford a home are going small. But small is still expensive.

META EXEC ADMITS AI DESTROYING REVENUE MODEL OF THE INTERNET

The book title says it all: How To Save The Internet. Meta / Facebook executive Nick Clegg (or that’s the......

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GERMANY IS NOW ‘DIRECTLY ENGAGING’ IN WAR AGAINST RUSSIA: LAVROV

Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said last week that Germany is “now directly engaging” in war against Russia after recent comments from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about lifting limits on long-range weapons for Ukraine, and promising to help Kyiv ramp up production of weapons that threaten the Russian state.

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HOUTHIS CALL MAY ISRAEL’S ‘MOST PAINFUL’ MONTH

The Houthis last week identified May as the “hottest, most severe, and most painful month” for Israel since the conflict began shortly after the Hamas attack in 2023 and said there had been 22 operations that targeted military sites and other vital locations inside the country, according to a report.

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Global Economy

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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS

The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.

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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT

The number of U.S. workers laid off in May was 47 percent higher than May last year, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm reported 93,816 layoffs by U.S. employers in May, up from 63,816 layoffs last May. The total number of job cuts through the end of May was 696,309, an increase of 80 percent from the 385,589 job cuts in the first five months of last year.

The Israel War

Two Young Palestinian Boys Sitting Atop Bags Of Food Aid

BIDEN PIER 2.0: MILITARIZED HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN GAZA BECOME MURDER MILLS

Over 100 Palestinians have been killed at Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites in southern Gaza since 27 May, and hundreds have been injured, after warnings from the UN and NGOs that the project was doomed to fail from the start.

GAZA DEATH TOLL

The death toll in Gaza reached 54,927 on Tuesday and 126,615 have been wounded. There are another 11,000 missing.

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IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO DEFEND PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL’S ‘SAVAGERY’

Trends in AI

CHINA PLANS NETWORK OF AI SUPERCOMPUTERS IN SPACE

Last month, China launched the first 12 satellites into Earth orbit that will become part of a cluster of 2,800, ultimately forming something called the Three-Body Computing Constellation.

AI SAVED TYPICAL U.K. GOVERNMENT WORKER TWO WEEKS A YEAR, STUDY SAYS

Government workers who use AI for routine administrative tasks boosted their productivity enough to gain more than two weeks’ worth of time in the course of a year, according to a government test designed to see if AI could boost productivity.

AI TAKES JOBS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO MADE AI POSSIBLE

Not every business has figured out how to make a profitable return on its AI investment, but some of those making out best are using AI to supplement—or, in some cases replace—high-salaried software engineers. Startups that offer AIs able to look over and improve humans’ coding, or write entire blocks of code on their own, are netting top dollar in......

Global Economy

The Israel War

Trends in AI

Hi-Tech Science

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