Eurozone banks must repay €476.8 trillion worth of COVID-era loans to the European Central Bank on 28 June.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
U.K. SKIRTS RECESSION – FOR NOW
A modest recovery in the U.K.’s service sector let the nation avoid a recession, at least for now.
TAKING VITAMIN D DAILY MAY REDUCE CANCER MORTALITY BY 12 PERCENT
A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis found daily vitamin D supplementation reduced cancer mortality by a significant 12 percent.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A quartet of stories this past week showed that governments and corporate allies are only stepping up weaponization of claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” against their own citizens, to neutralize opposition to their objectives.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Cryptos were born in the wake of a major banking and financial crisis that unfolded in 2007-2008.
NEW CONGRESSIONAL BILL: CRYPTO WON’T BE UNLEASHED UNLESS GENSLER IS CAGED
Crypto utility and innovation in the U.S. won’t truly take-off unless Gary Gensler is leashed.
That’s the premise of “The SEC Stabilization Act,” which was introduced this past week in Congress.
AI: HARVEST TOMATOES, SAVE HUMANITY
Researchers at technical universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland asked ChatGPT to name the greatest challenges that must be overcome in prolonging the survival of the human species.
LARGE NUMBER OF CEOs SAY AI COULD DESTROY HUMANITY BY 2033
Forty-two percent of corporate chiefs surveyed at Yale University’s CEO Summit last week said AI has the potential to wipe out the human race within ten years.
AI SPEEDS “REVERSE ENGINEERING” OF IMAGINED PHARMACEUTICALS
In the days before AI, biochemists would design the ideal molecule to treat an illness or chronic condition, then try to figure out how to make it—a process called “retrosynthesis” that could take years of tinkering and testing before human clinical trials even began.
PASTOR CHATBOT PREACHES TO THE MULTITUDES
On 9 June, more than 300 believers at a Lutheran religious conference in Germany packed the pews to take part in what was billed as the world’s first church service designed and presented by an artificial intelligence.









