A new study out of Osaka, Japan has found that the UN’s climate policy org is using faulty historic data and assumptions in fashioning radical carbon zero and other policies.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
The facts and details are there for all to see and all to read. On 4 February, the cover of The Trends Journal said it all: “DOT-COM BUST 2.0.” Now, some six weeks later reality has hit The Street.
“TRUMP BUMP” GIVES WAY TO MARKET CRASH
Equity markets began the year high on expectations that incoming president Donald Trump would cut taxes and regulations, setting off another burst of growth in stock values. Stock prices rose on that expectation of a “Trump bump.”
FOX IN THE WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP ADDS MORE PRESSTITUTES TO HIS OFFICE
It pays to be a Presstitute: A media whore who gets paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whoremasters.
TRANSNATURAL: THE UNROTTEN FRUITS OF GENE EDITING
The prospect of mass human redesigns of every food that naturally spoils is now on the table, with bananas being served up first.
IRAN CALLS TRUMP’S ‘MAXIMUM PRESSURE’ CAMPAIGN A ‘CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry last week criticized the Trump administration’s decision to enforce a “maximum pressure” sanction campaign on Tehran and that the Americans are fooling themselves if they think proven failed policy will somehow achieve a more desirable outcome.
IS PRESIDENT TRUMP AN ISRAELI PUPPET?
President Trump has given every indication that he is as concerned with Israel’s interest as he is with the interests of MAGA Americans.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Allianz, a German insurer and financial services company, is in exclusive negotiations to buy Viridium, a provider of specialized insurance services, for €3 billion, equivalent to about $3.3 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFF GUESS
The Trump administration put a one-month pause on the blanket 25-percent import duties on goods entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.
ANOTHER LUXURY HOUSE REPORTS A BAD YEAR
Salvatore Ferragamo, the Italian high-fashion house known for its shoes and handbags, booked a net loss of €68.1 million—equivalent to about $73 million—in 2024 after revenue dropped 11 percent.
The Israel War
TRUMP’S USAID CUTS PREVENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM REACHING AID GROUPS WORKING IN GAZA
Despite approving $383 million for humanitarian aid for Gaza after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced, the Trump administration has yet to cut any checks so aid groups working in the region have been forced to foot the bill, according to a report.
ISRAEL STEALING MORE LAND IN SYRIA, FEAR GRIPS SOUTHERN TOWNS
Israel continued last week to assert itself militarily in the southern region of Syria amid the security vacuum left behind after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the chaos that has resulted in Damascus and across the northern part of the country—seeing an opportunity to extend its borders and influence in the region.
EU THROWS EARLY SUPPORT BEHIND ARAB PLAN FOR POST-GENOCIDE GAZA
France, Germany, Italy, and Britain announced support for the Egypt plan for post-genocide Gaza that calls to keep Palestinians in place and with a price tag of €41 billion—a plan that has been rejected by both Washington and Tel Aviv.
AI
AI BRIEFS
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is considered to be the world’s best source of weather prognoses. Now those forecasts are even better.
AI INVENTS A MATERIAL AS STRONG AS STEEL, LIGHT AS STYROFOAM
An AI at the University of Toronto has invented a lattice-structured nanomaterial that shows the strength of carbon steel but is as airy as Styrofoam.
DEEPSEEK CLAIMS DAILY COST-PROFIT RATIO OF 545 PERCENT
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up that shocked the industry in January by claiming a world-class AI was built for a sliver of what Western developers have spent, now says its V3 and R1 models show a cost-profit ratio as high as 545 percent every day.
Hi-Tech Science
SCIENTISTS FIND A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN KIND OF BRAIN CELL
Bioscientists at the Munich campus of Germany’s Helmholtz Association research network have identified a previously unknown brain cell that could play a key role in healing brain damage.
AMAZON’S NEW CHIP COULD SPEED THE ARRIVAL OF QUANTUM COMPUTING
Amazon Web Services’ new “Ocelot” quantum computer chip could bring practical quantum computing five years closer, the company says.
ROBO-BEES TO THE RESCUE
The honey bees that pollinate our crops have been in trouble for more than 20 years due to a range of ills ranging from parasites to pesticides.
