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December 19, 2023

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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.

BIG BANKS RUSH INTO CRYPTOS AFTER YEARS OF STANDING ON THE SIDELINES

Big banks in the U.S. that have once taken a skeptical approach to the basket of cryptocurrencies on the market have had a collective change of heart now that President Donald Trump is in office, and the dramatic shift is viewed as both politically opportunistic and pragmatic, according to a new report.

TRUMP FLUSHING THE HOMELESS ‘FAR FROM THE CAPITAL’ IS HUMAN PUNISHMENT… CELENTE HAS THE HOMELESS SOLUTION BUT MEDIA PRESSTITUTES BAN THE WORLD’S #1 TREND-FORECASTER

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make Washington, D.C., “beautiful” again, so he’s tasked the city’s Metropolitan Police Department—now overseen by the federal government—with clearing out the eyesore homeless encampments throughout the city that he insisted needed emergency intervention.

GERMAN COMPANY PANICS AFTER MERZ ANNOUNCES PARTIAL WEAPONS SALE BAN TO ISRAEL, SAYS PLAN B IS TO RELOCATE

A German company that provides the IDF with a key component for its armored vehicles that the military is using in Gaza during its genocide is considering how to make sure it doesn’t lose its contract with Israel after Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, announced a partial weapons sale ban.

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.

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.”

CONSUMERS’ MOOD HAS DARKENED IN AUGUST

Consumers are no longer fearing a short-term economic catastrophe from Donald Trump’s tariff war, but they do expect higher prices and fewer jobs, according to this month’s survey of consumer sentiment by the University of Michigan.

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.

ARAB COUNTRIES REJECT NETANYAHU’S PERSONAL ‘CONNECTION’ TO A ‘GREATER ISRAEL’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is drunk on hubris given that he owns the U.S. government, has grown bolder in his rhetoric since Donald Trump was elected president and said in an interview last week that he feels a “connection” to the idea of a “Greater Israel” forming in the Middle East that would mean stealing significantly more land from neighbors.

TRUMP’S SONS LOOK TO ASIA FOR ACQUISITIONS IN EFFORT TO DEVELOP BITCOIN RESERVE

U.S. President Donald Trump’s little boys, Don Jr. and Eric, are moving fast to cash in on their father’s influence in cryptos and have been trying to come up with a few acquisitions in Asia so they can create a BTC reserve like Michael Saylor’s Strategy.

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.

CRYPTO COMPANIES ARE RUSHING TO ISSUE STOCK

Energized by the friendly policies and personal enthusiasm of Donald Trump, crypto-related businesses are “lining up to go public,” Reuters reported, with the global value of cryptocurrencies remaining above $4 trillion.

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.

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.

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.

AMERICA’S TRADEMARK MOBILITY IS EBBING AWAY, WSJ SAYS

Americans are hunkering down.

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.

A Colorful Illustration Of Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin Facing Each Other

NO TRUMP TRUTH, NO PUTIN CONSEQUENCES: ALASKA SUMMIT ENDS WITHOUT A DEAL TO END THE WAR

SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR

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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

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.