Global obesity rates have skyrocketed, with over 3.8 billion adults projected to be overweight or obese by 2050, making this a worsening crisis that no country has successfully reversed.
Category: 13 May 2025
MARTIAL LAW DISGUISED AS LAW AND ORDER: THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE AUTHORITARIAN PLAYBOOK
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
TRUMP PRAISES COLUMBIA FOR SMASHING ANTI-GENOCIDE PROTEST
Columbia University—home of the Lions—looked more like kittens for the Trump administration last week when it got patted on the head for sufficiently smashing the anti-genocide protest that broke out on its Morningside Heights campus last week.
U.S. THAAD SYSTEM FAILED TWICE TO INTERCEPT YEMENI HYPERSONIC MISSILES
The U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system failed twice last week to intercept missiles launched from Yemen into Israel.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Once again, another day of Donald Trump in the White House, and another day of him playing The Trump Card. And with each play of the Trump Card, it is another day of the world wondering what will be the next Wild Card that will be dealt.
AT BEST, WE HAVE 32 YEARS LEFT—HERE IS THE PROOF
Even under current conditions, the dollar is mathematically on track to hit zero within 32 years (by ~2057)… And that’s assuming the devaluation rate stays at 9.5 percent per year. But it won’t.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
The U.S. has temporarily reduced its tariffs on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent and China has slashed its import fees on U.S. goods from 125 percent to 10 percent.
AS FORECAST: GENERATION AI BEING RAVAGED BY AI DEPENDENCE
Reliance on AI is destroying the abilities of college students to conduct research, write papers and otherwise perform high level intellectual work.
FORMER ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS ISRAEL COMMITTING WAR CRIMES
Moshe Ya’alon, the former Israeli defense minister who accused the IDF of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, said last week that the plans in motion to expel the 2.1 million Palestinians living in Gaza is a “war crime.”
SYRIAN LEADER WANTS TO WIN OVER TRUMP, SUGGESTS A TRUMP TOWER IN DAMASCUS
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former commander of Al Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who was named Syria’s transitional president, has made indirect overtures to U.S. President Donald Trump to remove sanctions and normalize relations, mentioning some economic incentives that included the possibility of erecting a Trump Tower in Damascus, according to a report.