The Israeli government killed at least 62,064 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the genocide. There have been 156,573 injuries and over 11,000 people are missing.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Welcome to 19 August 2025, the heat of the Western holiday season, a time when people are on vacation, going on vacation and in a vacation state of mind.
SHOCKING U.S. INFLATION WARNING PROJECTION. (6-12 MONTHS OUT). THE 4 THINGS YOU NEED TO DO NOW.
Inflation/currency devaluation here in the US is picking up momentum RAPIDLY. Moreover, there is not a single roadblock being put up to slow it down.
U.S. ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL’S ILLEGAL LAND STEAL IN THE WEST BANK
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, announced that the Trump administration will not stand in Israel’s way while it steals more land in the West Bank with stated goals to “bury the idea” of a Palestinian state.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: MIND-VASION COMPETITION HEATS UP
Still think the goal isn’t to merge AI and humans?
Reports this past week detailed how the CEO of the most prominent AI focused company on earth, OpenAI, is percolating a start-up called Merge Labs.
NO TRUMP TRUTH, NO PUTIN CONSEQUENCES: ALASKA SUMMIT ENDS WITHOUT A DEAL TO END THE WAR
Days before President Donald Trump was to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, the U.S. leader announced that Moscow would face “very severe consequences” if there was no progress made during their meeting.
SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR
Through June, U.S. consumers paid about 22 percent of Donald Trump’s new tariffs on imported goods, according to calculations by Goldman Sachs. U.S. companies paid 64 percent, with foreign suppliers covering 14 percent of the cost.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTER BIGGER
Gildan Activewear, which makes sweatshirts and other activity clothing, is buying underwear company Hanesbrands for $2.2 billion. When Hanesbrands’ debt is included, the deal’s value totals $4.4 billion.
SPECIAL REPORT: TO BUILD A CHEAPER EV, FORD DITCHES THE ASSEMBLY LINE
Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley called 12 August “a Model T moment”—the equivalent of Henry Ford’s 1913 debut of the assembly line that would build his Model T car, make it affordable for the middle class, and revolutionize manufacturing for the 20th century.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
Last month, growth in China’s retail sales and industrial production slowed from June, confronting Beijing with both facets of its economic malaise at the same time.
The Israel War
GAZA DEATH TOLL
The Israeli government killed at least 62,064 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the genocide. There have been 156,573 injuries and over 11,000 people are missing.
NOT WANTED: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BARS INJURED GAZANS FROM ENTERING U.S. FOR TREATMENT, BUT ISRAELI IMMIGRANTS OK
Palestinians badly injured in the Trump-backed genocide inside Gaza were barred from entering the U.S. for medical care after MAGA’s matriarch Laura Loomer, a devout Zionist with major sway over the president, called their entry a serious “national security threat.”
ISRAEL KILLS CHILDREN IN GAZA AS U.S. AND ISRAEL LOOK TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE THE ENCLAVE
The Gaza genocide is approaching its two-year mark in October, and there is a generation of children inside the enclave who will be forever scarred by the U.S.-backed ethnic cleansing, and will have their childhood taken from them.
Trends in AI
DOCTORS USING AI FOR THIS DIAGNOSIS ARE LESS ACCURATE, NOT MORE
Physicians reading the results of colonoscopies lost accuracy as they used AI more, according to a Polish study involving 1,400 patients.
APPLE IS BLEEDING AI TALENT AS RIVALS POACH KEY STAFF
About a dozen members of Apple’s key AI team have moved to competitors Cohere, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI this year as the iPhone creator “struggles to stay relevant in Silicon Valley’s ferocious AI talent war,” the Financial Times reported.
META CLAIMS GIANT STEP TOWARD ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta’s AI engineers say that the company’s AI systems are now improving themselves without human involvement.
Hi-Tech Science
IS THIS PROTEIN THE CAUSE OF “NORMAL” AGING?
Scientists have found that what we think of as “normal” aging spreads through the body like an infection—and a particular form of a particular molecule could be the root cause.
“THE PILL” FOR MEN CLEARS EARLY CLINICAL TRIAL
For the first time, scientists think they have an oral male contraceptive that’s fully effective, reversible, and causes no side effects.
MONGOLIA BUILDS WORLD’S LARGEST HYDROGEN POWER SYSTEM
As part of its bid to become a global hub for hydrogen energy technology, Mongolia—a landlocked country between Russia and northeastern China—is building what is planned as the world’s first large-scale hydrogen energy system.
