Protests broke out across Europe and Asia last week over soaring inflation and wages that are not keeping up with the cost of goods, leading to a “New World Disorder” that will result in widespread civil unrest that will likely only get worse.
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MUSK TAKES STAGE WITH OPTIMUS HUMANOID ROBOT
Well, at least it will cost less than a car.
Elon Musk previewed a humanoid robot at Tesla’s second annual “AI Day” last week, and said the company intends to bring it to market within three to five years.
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SYNBIO SET TO EXPLODE WITH LUCRATIVE INNOVATIONS, SAY INDUSTRY WATCHERS
Synthetic biology, or synbio, is making rapid advances that are opening up attractive investment possibilities.
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EVOLUTION 2031: FROM HUMANS DESIGNING MACHINES, TO MACHINES DESIGNING HUMANS
Scientists with a transhumanist agenda are engaged in a dangerous quest to usher in the “Singularity.”
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KEY INFLATION GAUGE COMES IN HIGHER THAN EXPECTED
Despite the Federal Reserve raising interest rates five times this past year, inflation continues to be much higher than the central bank’s 2 percent target. The Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation measure, which was released Friday, showed the index rose last month by 6.2 percent from a year ago, which was slightly down from 6.4 percent...
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‘PREPOSTEROUS’ TO THINK U.S. WOULD BE BEHIND NORD STREAM SABOTAGE: NED PRICE
Ned Price, the State Department spokesman, brushed off the Russian “disinformation” blaming the U.S. of sabotaging the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, warned that the sabotage “would be met with a united and determined response.” Price, who has worked as a senior analyst...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
NEW AI STREET SURVEILLANCE FINGERS YOU AND EVERYONE YOU MEET. The company is called Vintra and their motto is “Know what the cameras know.” A new surveillance product leverages AI to analyze video footage and make startling connections that provide a creepily invasive and detailed interaction map of people on public streets. Not only does...
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TJ Apr 12 Long Section Test – JD
TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT ECONOMIC OVERVIEW How low can we go? This isn’t ancient history. Go back to Chinese Lunar New Year 2020: The Year of the Rat In January, when the coronavirus was launched in the city of Wuhan, Beijing locked the city down, and others, to beat the virus. In lockstep,...
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SUPPLY CHAIN NIGHTMARES BEGET “RESHORING” AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
The global supply chain crisis—see “WORLD’S SUPPLY CHAIN SNARLED UNTIL WELL INTO NEXT YEAR” (14 Sep 2021)—as we have forecast, will give rise to more manufacturing returning nations who want to become more self-sufficient (see 2022 Top Trend “SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMY”). Termed “Reshoring,” presumably coined from “offshoring,” it will provide a new pathway for nations that...
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TURKEY: THE FAMOUS LIRA DIVE
Once again, Turkey’s central bank has cut interest rates, sending its currency to a new low against the dollar and heightening fears that inflation will worsen and crash the country’s economy. The bank cut its one-week repo rate by 1 percentage point to 15 percent, the third cut since economist Sahap Kavcioglu became the bank’s...