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.
Category: HOMEPAGE
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.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Go to the $6 weekend print edition of The Wall Street Journal... couldn’t find an article that gold prices spiked to new highs and closed at $3,225 per ounce. As we go to press, gold is up some $22 per ounce and spot gold is selling $3,231 per ounce.
U.S. DOLLAR DEATH AND THE DEATH OF AMERICA
This is certainly no secret; nations are actively sidestepping the U.S. dollar in international trade and financial agreements with more on the way.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Again, as we have greatly detailed we saw this coming! Back on 2 January of this year we had forecast that Playing The Wild Card would be a Top Trend for 2025... and here we are. And who dealt the Wild Card? It was another one of our Top Trends for 2025... The Trump Card.
FOREVERLAND: THE BRAIN UPLOAD IS NEARER
Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, who famously authored 2005’s The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, has long predicted and wished for “immortality” via technology which would copy human minds into digital form.
NETANYAHU SUPPORTS TRUMP’S ETHNIC CLEANSING PLAN FOR GAZA DURING WHITE HOUSE VISIT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded reporters during his meeting with U.S. President Trump last week that they are still on the same page about clearing out Gaza so it can be rebuilt without Palestinians.
UKRAINE DEFENSE CONTACT GROUP RAISES $23.8 BILLION IN WEAPONS OF DEATH AMID QUESTIONS ABOUT CONTINUED U.S. SUPPORT
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) announced last week that it raised $23.8 billion in military aid after a meeting in Brussels that included top officials from 51 countries.